| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cro·chet |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kr -sh  |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: cro·cheted (-shd), cro·chet·ing (-sh ng), cro·chets (-shz)
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To make by looping thread with a hooked needle: crochet a sweater. | | NOUN: | Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French crocheter, from Old French crochet, hook, diminutive of croche, feminine of croc, of Germanic origin. | | OTHER FORMS: | cro·cheter (-sh r) —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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