Crochet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • v. To make by looping thread with a hooked needle: crochet a sweater.
  • n. Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • v. to make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle, to make interlocking loops of thread.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
  • v. To knit with a crochet needle or hook.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of knitting by means of a needle with a hook at one end.
  • n. An old hagbut or hand-cannon. Wilhelm, Mil. Dict.
  • n. In fortification, an indentation in the glacis, opposite a traverse, continuing the covered way around the traverse.
  • To produce a close or open fabric by hooking a thread of worsted, linen, silk, etc., into meshes with a crochet-needle.
  • To make in the style of work called crochet: as, to crochet a shawl; crocheted edging.
  • n. A fold of enamel directed forward from the anterior edge of the median cross-crest (metaloph) in such a tooth as the molar of a rhinoceros. See cut under tooth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle
  • v. create by looping or crocheting
  • v. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    crocheted    crocheting    crochets   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    needlework    needlecraft    intertwine    loop   
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua