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Crochet   /kroʊʃˈeɪ/   Listen
Crochet

noun
1.
Needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.  Synonym: crocheting.
verb
(past & past part. crocheted; pres. part. crocheting)
1.
Create by looping or crocheting.
2.
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.  Synonym: hook.



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"Crochet" Quotes from Famous Books



... together and he sang a song to her about the Rose in the Wood, her favourite song. And he talked about religion and the drama, and she sat and listened eagerly. But she never expressed an opinion; she listened in silence and went on with her crochet work. ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... Flora to take refuge in playing waltzes for the rest of the evening. Moreover, to the extreme satisfaction of Mary, she left her crochet-needle on the floor at night. While a tumultuous party were pursuing her with it to claim the penny, and Richard was conveying Margaret upstairs, Ethel found an opportunity of asking her father if he were not very glad of Mr. Ernescliffe's ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... Carrie went back to the piano. The lights were dim. Mrs. Kitty went on finishing her crochet work or whatever it was. Nobody said anything for a long time. The Captain was busy in the gun room with one ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... sure you may, you little torment," replied I; "are you coming to learn mathematics, or to teach me crochet? for I see you are armed with that vicious little hook with which you delight to torture the wool of innocent lambs into strange shapes, for the purpose of providing your friends with innumerable small anomalous absurdities, ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... hear that Monsieur Blot is teaching classes of New York ladies that cooking is not a vulgar kitchen toil, to be left to blundering servants, but an elegant feminine accomplishment, better worth a woman's learning than crochet or embroidery; and that a well-kept culinary apartment may be so inviting and orderly that no lady need feel her ladyhood compromised by participating in its pleasant toils. I am glad to know that his cooking academy is thronged with more scholars than he can accommodate, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various


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