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English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)
- Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, , London: T. Maxey for Rich Marriot, , →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:First for a May-fly: you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color
Derived terms
Translations
worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery
Verb
crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling or (US) creweling, simple past and past participle crewelled or (US) creweled)
- (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.
Middle English
Adjective
crewel
- Alternative form of cruel