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/kroʊʃˈeɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Crochet v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. crocheted; pres. part. crocheting) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.

noun

crocheting n.

Something created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.

Synonyms: crochet.

Creating a garment of needlework.

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Etymology of 'Crocheting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crocheting" Quotes from Famous Books

... this July afternoon, desisted from her crocheting; observed in the dozing figure beside her signs of movement; turned ...

— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

... well crowded before, and the extra influx taxed every available seat. Betty took out her crocheting and Bob decided that he would go ...

— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

... flirted with him till his gold-rimmed eye-glasses protruded; behaved like a thoughtful and considerate angel to the old, uninteresting and infirm; romped like a young goddess with the adoring children of the boarders, and was fiercely detested by the crocheting spinsters rocking in acidulated rows ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... Fairfax's compliments and "Please, will Mr. Sewell come at two o'clock to dress Mistress Fairfax's hair?" Nor, is it difficult to picture William, when the shop day is over, with his apprentices bent over the fine net, meticulously crocheting, by candlelight, the white hair into a lofty creation that will, in about six months time, take ...

— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

... spotless from dirt, and suited both to the weather and the occasion; doing for herself what her own personal needs require; arranging flowers; entertaining company; nursing the sick; "letting down" and "letting out" to suit the growing ones; patching, darning, knitting, crocheting, braiding, quilting,—but let us remember the warning of the old ...

— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz