Crochet Definition

krō-shā
crocheted, crocheting, crochets
verb
crocheted, crocheting, crochets
To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
American Heritage
To do crochet or make by crochet.
Webster's New World

To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle, to make interlocking loops of thread.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
crochets
A kind of needlework in which loops of a thread or yarn are interconnected by means of a single hooked needle (crochet hook)
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Crochet

Noun

Singular:
crochet
Plural:
crochets

Origin of Crochet

  • From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.

    From Wiktionary

  • French crocheter from Old French crochet hook diminutive of croche feminine of croc of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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