| Summary: | knitting vbl n Well, you.you'd put your.you'd put up your.your knitting, we'll say, you had proper knitting needles, you know. (ie needles for making nets. Netting needles??? Pronunciation ambiguous for me! Conforms to his Pronunciation of making things with wool, though!) NOTE. Ambiguity is possible here perhaps because informant does not use the noun _net_ so there is no confusion. He uses _ linnet_ for _net_, and _knit_ instead of _net_ as a verb. needles for making nets Yes DNE-cit J. D. A. WIDDOWSON Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I netting, knitting-needle, needle Checked by Raji Sreeni on Fri 31 Jul 2015; Word form appears in DNE with a hyphen: knitting-needle. Source appears in DNE as: T 43/8-64.
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