Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strongly or well knit; firmly joined or compacted.
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Examples
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The writer Edmund Wilson described Anderson in terms that evoked a youthful Bill Haywood: “a short strong-knit man with a dark glaring purposeful eye.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The writer Edmund Wilson described Anderson in terms that evoked a youthful Bill Haywood: “a short strong-knit man with a dark glaring purposeful eye.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong-knit timbers of the ship to quiver.
The Argonautica 2008
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They are a strong-knit group who know what they want and work toward their goal.
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But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong-knit timbers of the ship to quiver.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong-knit timbers of the ship to quiver.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Have robbd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
Act II. Scene III. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914
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In his spare but strong-knit figure, his firm but supple hands, his manner of carrying himself, his every gesture, one felt the abounding vitality, the almost furious energy of the man.
Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects Kenyon Cox 1887
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My horse, a strong-knit half-breed, was as fast as
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
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