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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Cf.

A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into

knitchets

, or handfuls.

Holland.

knitchet ‎(plural knitchets)

(obsolete, Britain, dialect) A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.
- Holland
  When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls.