double knit

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   a knit fabric similar to jersey that is made with two sets of needles producing a double thickness joined by interlocking stitches

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Questions about double knit

What does double knit mean?

double knit means "a knit fabric similar to jersey that is made with two sets of needles producing a double thickness joined by interlocking stitches".

Is double knit a common word?

double knit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.