Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
crocodile bird
crocodile clip
crocodile tears
crocodilian
crocoite
crocosmia
crocus
crocus sack
Croesus
croft
crofting
Crohn’s disease
croissant
Croix de Guerre
croker sack
crombie
cromlech
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

crochet

cro·chet [ krō sháy ]


noun 
Definition:
 
type of knitting using hook: a form of needlework used to make clothes or decorative items from wool or thick stiff thread by looping the wool or thread through itself with a hooked needle crochet hook



transitive and intransitive verb  (past and past participle cro·cheted [ krō sháyd ], present participle cro·chet·ing [ krō sháy ing ], 3rd person present singular cro·chets [ krō sháyz ])
Definition:
 
use crochet to make something: to make something using the technique of crochet

[Mid-19th century. < French, literally "little hook" < croche "hook" < Germanic]

cro·chet·er [ krō sháy ər ] noun
Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft