thick-knit

Updated: May 26, 2025

"It's easier than goin' 'round by the door." "Hock" prided himself on being a "sport," and he certainly looked one: thick-knit legs, sturdy ankles, a short, chunky neck, hands with a grip like a vise, a big, good-natured dimpling mouth, eyes that were narrow and twinkling, muscles as hard as nails, and thirteen years old, but imagining himself eighteen.

E. Pauline Johnson - The Shagganappi