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cro⋅chet

[kroh-shey; Brit. kroh-shey, -shee] noun, verb, -cheted [-sheyd; Brit. -sheyd, -sheed] , -chet⋅ing [-shey-ing; Brit. -shey-ing, -shee-ing] .
–noun
1. needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the thread or yarn through intertwined loops.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2. to form by crochet.

Origin:
1840–50; < F: knitting needle, lit., small hook, dim. of croche, croc < ME or Scand. See crook 1 , -et


cro⋅chet⋅er [kroh-shey-er; Brit. kroh-shey-er, -shee-] , noun
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v.   cro·cheted (-shād'), cro·chet·ing (-shā'ĭng), cro·chets (-shāz')

v.   intr.
To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
v.   tr.
To make by looping thread with a hooked needle: crochet a sweater.
n.  Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

[French crocheter, from Old French crochet, hook, diminutive of croche, feminine of croc, of Germanic origin.]
cro·chet'er (-shā'ər) n.
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Word Origin & History

crochet 
1846, from Fr. crochet, dim. of croc "hook," from O.N. krokr "hook." So called for the hooked needle used.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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crochet

craft that developed in the 19th century out of a form of chain-stitch embroidery done with a hook instead of a needle. In crochet work the hook is used, without a foundation material, to make a texture of looped and interlinked chains of thread. In the late 1840s crochet was introduced into Ireland as a famine relief measure. In southern Ireland the industry centred in Cork, in northern Ireland at Clones in County Monaghan. As it became more sophisticated, crochet work approximated lace, antique laces such as gros point de Venise, or Venetian raised lace, being successfully imitated

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