Word Meanings - CROCHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

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• KNITTLE
  See NETTLES (more info) 1. A string that draws together a purse or bag. Wright. 2. pl.
• KNITTER
  One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. Shak.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• HOOKE'S GEARING
  Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• HOOKEY
  See HOCKEY
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• HOOKY
  Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
• HOOK
  1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. Hook him, my poor
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• CANT HOOK
  A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. Bartlett.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• WARP KNITTING
  A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side.
• SHOOK
  imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
• PORTHOOK
  One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. J. Knowles.
• BILLHOOK
  A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.