crochet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To make a piece of needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle.
• intransitive verb To make by looping thread with a hooked needle.
• noun Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To produce a close or open fabric by hooking a thread of worsted, linen, silk, etc., into meshes with a crochet-needle.
• To make in the style of work called crochet: as, to crochet a shawl; crocheted edging.
• noun A kind of knitting by means of a needle with a hook at one end.
• noun An old hagbut or hand-cannon. Wilhelm, Mil. Dict.
• noun In fortification, an indentation in the glacis, opposite a traverse, continuing the covered way around the traverse.
• noun A fold of enamel directed forward from the anterior edge of the median cross-crest (metaloph) in such a tooth as the molar of a rhinoceros. See cut under tooth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• verb To knit with a crochet needle or hook.
• noun A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
• noun a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
• verb to make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle, to make interlocking loops of thread.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle
• verb create by looping or crocheting
• verb make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle