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knitback

noun

Etymology

From knit + back, from its use as a restorative.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as knitback — “knit + back”

Definitions

  1. The plant comfrey.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for knitback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA