knitch

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English knicche (“bundle (of brush, weeds), bunch, sheaf”), from Old English ġecnyċċe (“bond”), deverbative of ġecnyċċan, cnyċċan (“to tie, bind together, connect”), from Proto-Germanic *knukkijaną; akin to Lithuanian gniáužti (“to close one’s hand”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

Noun

knitch (plural knitches)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A small bundle.
    a knitch of wheat

References
  1. Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 298.

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