Crochet Definition

krō-shā

crocheted, crocheting, crochets

verb

crocheted, crocheting, crochets

To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.

American Heritage

To do crochet or make by crochet.

Webster's New World

To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle, to make interlocking loops of thread.

Wiktionary

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noun

crochets

A kind of needlework in which loops of a thread or yarn are interconnected by means of a single hooked needle (crochet hook)

Webster's New World

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Other Word Forms of Crochet

Singular:

crochet

Plural:

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 Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.

From Wiktionary
French crocheter from Old French crochet hook diminutive of croche feminine of croc of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition