An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Knitchell, s. A small bundle.
Dunbar.

KNITTING, s. Tape, S.
Sir J. Sinclair.

KNOCK, s. A clock, S.
Watson.

KNOCKIT BARLEY or BEAR, barley stripped of the husk, by being beaten in a hollow stone with a maul, S.
Ramsay.

To KNOIT, KNITE, NOYT, v. a.
1. To strike with a sharp sound, S.
Chr. Kirk.
2. To amble or hobble in walking, S.

Isl. hniot-a, niot-a, ferire.

Knoit, Noit, s. A smart stroke, S.
A. Nicol.
2. The sound occasioned by a stroke or fall on any hard body, S.
Journ. Lond.

To KNOIT, v. a. To gnaw; expressive of the manner in which infants eat, Ang.

Isl. hnot-a, to rub.

KNOIT, s. A large piece of any thing, S. B.
V. [Knoost].