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- verb Present participle of
crotchet .
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Examples
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The bridal stock of household linen was large enough to satisfy even Annemarie: Elsa had stitched at it since her earliest school-days, tatting and crotcheting the laces that trimmed it, drawing threads and embroidering monograms, her lips growing yearly more pinched at the thought that she might never need it.
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The men lit pipes and cigars, and Honora brought her crotcheting.
The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889
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She thought of it as she sat one afternoon, gravely crotcheting a tidy after an East Green pattern, before it was time for the children to be back from school.
A Village Ophelia and Other Stories Anne Reeve Aldrich 1879
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Charlotte's room had no pictures on its walls, and no odds and ends of memorials; and as sewing was to her a duty and not a pleasure, there was no crotcheting or Berlin-wool work in hand; and with the exception of a handsome copy of "Izaak Walton," there were no books on her table but a Bible, Book of Common Prayer, and a very shabby
The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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i brought knitting with me on vacay : i actually saw a woman crotcheting while standing in line at the Mad Tea Party.
Marathon Bird Holly 2009
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Living in the comfortable home they built themselves in the 50’s, arguing about politics, making tea and washing up, fixing, gardening, embroidering, crotcheting, waiting for us to visit.
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If I watch that line of knitting women I'll be crotcheting Arabella's wool in my sleep to-night. "
Where there's a Will 1912
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