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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
  • 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.
  • COTTONARY
    Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
  • 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.

 

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