knit vs neighbour

knit

verb
  • To join closely and firmly together. 

  • To grow together. 

  • To combine from various elements. 

  • To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. 

  • To heal following a fracture. 

  • To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted. 

  • To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. 

  • To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. 

noun
  • A knitted garment. 

  • A session of knitting. 

neighbour

verb
  • To associate intimately with; to be close to. 

  • To be similar to, to be almost the same as. 

  • To be adjacent to 

noun
  • A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position. 

  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 

  • A fellow human being. 

How often have the words knit and neighbour occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )