Meaning

noun needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle

verb create by looping or crocheting

verb make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

originFrom 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 English crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch…

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