"knit up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knits up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knit up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knit up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitted up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitted up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "knits up",
        "2": "knitting up",
        "3": "knit up",
        "past2": "knitted up"
      },
      "expansion": "knit up (third-person singular simple present knits up, present participle knitting up, simple past and past participle knit up or knitted up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216:",
          "text": "But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61:",
          "text": "To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To close up or draw together by knitting."
      ],
      "id": "en-knit_up-en-verb-O2FBY4So",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close up or draw together by knitting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knit up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knits up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knit up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knit up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitted up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knitted up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "knits up",
        "2": "knitting up",
        "3": "knit up",
        "past2": "knitted up"
      },
      "expansion": "knit up (third-person singular simple present knits up, present participle knitting up, simple past and past participle knit up or knitted up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216:",
          "text": "But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61:",
          "text": "To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To close up or draw together by knitting."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close up or draw together by knitting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knit up"
}