knitch

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English knicche ‘bundle (of brush, weeds), bunch, sheaf’, from Old English gecnycce ‘bond’, deverbative of (ge)cnyccan ‘to bind together, connect’, from Proto-Germanic *knukkjan-; 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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