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means Clothing made from knitted fabric, like sweaters, cardigans, and jumpers, rather than woven cloth.

from A straightforward compound: 'knit' goes back to Old English cnyttan, meaning to tie or fasten with a knot, related to 'knot' itself — the same root sense of looping and binding survives in every stitch. 'Wear' comes from Old English werian, to carry on the body as clothing. Push them together and you get a 19th-century trade term, born in the mills and shops that needed a tidy word for everything produced on knitting machines, as opposed to the loomed, woven textiles sold alongside it.