Other forms: crochets
Crochet is making fabric by looping yarn with a single hook. Learn to crochet, a crochet blanket, crochet hooks.
One live loop at a time is what separates it from knitting, where a whole row sits on the needles — which means crochet cannot drop a row and unravels only if you pull it deliberately. The t is silent, and the French means a little hook.
1nouncrochetMaking fabric by looping yarn with a single hook.
“My grandmother taught me crochet, and I made my first blanket last winter.”
crochet is a craft.
French crochet means a little hook, a diminutive of croc, a hook.
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English, today
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From 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 croc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, croc (“curl”). a doublet of crocket and croquet and crotchet. More at crook, crooked.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA