[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That knits, in various senses: see the verb.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, Prol. (Skeat), l. 3. The deliciousnesse of iestes and of ryme, by queynt knittinge coloures.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, x. (1617), 152. The knitting parts, that is to wit, the bones, the skin, the sinewes and such like.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 342/2. Knitting and congealinge Playsters.
1815. Byron, Parisina, x. With downcast eyes and knitting brow.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 88. Four knitting young ladies and their knitting mother.
