English
Etymology
From Middle English knytter, knettere, equivalent to knit + -er.
Pronunciation
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈnɪtɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
knitter (plural knitters)
- A person or a machine that knits.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:“Ave! Old knitter of black wool.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who knits
- Belarusian: вяза́льшчык m (vjazálʹščyk), вяза́льшчыца f (vjazálʹščyca)
- Bulgarian: плетач m (pletač)
- Finnish: neuloja (fi) (person who knits), neulomakone (machine that nits); sitoja (fi) (person or machine that ties); solmija (person or machine that knots)
- French: tricoteur (fr) m, tricoteuse (fr) f
- Georgian: მქსოველი (mksoveli), საქსოვი მანქანა (saksovi mankana)
- German: Stricker (de) m, Strickerin (de) f
- Hungarian: kötő (hu)
- Italian: magliaia (it) f
- Lithuanian: mezgė́jas m, mezgė́ja f
- Polish: dziewiarz (pl) m pers, dziewiarka (pl) f
- Romagnol: majêra f
- Russian: вяза́льщик (ru) m (vjazálʹščik), вяза́льщица (ru) f (vjazálʹščica)
- Ukrainian: в'яза́льник (uk) m (vʺjazálʹnyk), в'яза́льниця (uk) f (vʺjazálʹnycja)
- Welsh: gwëwr f, gweuwr f
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
knitter
- inflection of knittern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative