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Knead v. t. (past & past part. kneaded; pres. part. kneading)

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough. "The kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking."

Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat. "I will knead him: I'll make him supple."

To press repeatedly with the hands or knuckles, sometimes with a twisting or squeezing motion; performed for example on the body of a person as a form of massage.

Kneading trough, a trough or tray in which dough is kneaded.

knead v. i. To perform movements like kneading, with the paws; said of cats, which may knead (3) a master's body when stroked, presumably a sign of contentment; as, a cat kneading and purring in his master's lap.

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"Knead" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Barbara, the trim little house-maid. "I might as well knead up the bread." And she whisked through the sitting-room so fast, and with so little noise, that Elsy only looked up to see if a bird had flown in over ...

— Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... you look like a tolerably good boy, and I believe I will permit you to go, under certain conditions. I am a genie; so, you see, I could cook and eat you, if I liked. You must reap all my wheat, thrash out the grains, grind them into flour, and knead the flour into loaves, and bake them. You will find all the tools you want in the cave. When all is done, you can call me; but till you have finished, you shall not stir a step." So saying, he disappeared in a streak of ...

— The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens - Being the Fourth Book of the Series • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

... with a qt. of wheat flour, add a little salt. Make it into a paste with 1/2 a pt. of milk. Knead it well: roll it as thin as paper. Cut it out with a tumbler, ...

— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous

... in closing, Which none butter could refuse: May her work be butter pleasure, Nothing butter butter use; May she never need for butter, Though she'll often knead for bread, And may every churning bring her Butter blessing on ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... the "Gothic Cathedral" from its shape. Some of the party passed by a block looking like a lion. There were huge fields of "a-a" where the lava was thrown up into rough heaps, as if some one had tried to knead up blocks a foot square, and given it up as a bad job. We walked nearly six miles in the crater, going and coming, which will give you an idea of its size. It is nine miles in circumference. Our young gentlemen we left behind, as they had discovered a new cave where they could ...

— Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California • Mary Evarts Anderson

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