crochet

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So she quickly realized crochet was the better thing.

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  1. intransitive verb To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
  2. transitive verb To make by looping thread with a hooked needle: crochet a sweater.
  3. noun Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

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  • So she quickly realized crochet was the better thing. —  Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
  • She opened it in a warm red flannel dressing-gown trimmed with hand-made crochet, her hair rather flat but perfectly neat in spite of the absence of a net. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • The single / double crochet is a short stitch and gives a compact or solid look to your work. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • But now that I can crochet, there are yarns I might have overlooked before that would be more enjoyable for me as crochet projects. —  Twisted Knitter
  • He found his hook, and, sure enough, it was something like a crochet-needle. —  A Little Girl of Long Ago
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  1. French crocheter, from Old French crochet, hook, diminutive of croche, feminine of croc, of Germanic origin.

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  1. French, diminutive of croc, a hook: see croche, crook.
  2. from crochet, n., 1.
 

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