A craft of making fabric from yarn using a single hooked needle; also the handmade lace or garments created this way.
From French 'crochet' (small hook), diminutive of 'croche' (hook). The French word comes from Old Norse 'krōkr' (hook), showing how the Normans brought this textile technique to England after 1066 with a Norse-derived French word.
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