crochet
n. uncountablen. a way of making clothes or blankets by using a single needle with a hook to pull loops of yarn through each other.
n. a handicraft in which yarn is looped into a patterned fabric by means of a hooked needle.
She spent the evening working on her crochet.
The artisan sold beautiful blankets made with intricate crochet patterns at the local craft fair.
While knitting requires two needles to manage multiple open stitches, crochet involves finishing each stitch before moving to the next, resulting in a thicker and more structural fabric.
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 crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”). Doublet of crocket, croquet, and crotchet. More at crook, crooked.
Uncountable when referring to the craft or the finished work; can also function as a verb.