hookling

English

Noun

hookling (uncountable)

1. (historical, rare) A process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.
   • 1840–1860, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Civil War journal (revised version) quoted by Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld in her Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography, chapter four: “1840–1860”, page 44

     Now — as I sit here writing I see half a dozen carriages under the shade of the trees — coachmen on their boxes, talking, laughing &c — some hookling, they call it. They have a bone hook some thing^[sic] like a crochet needle — and they hook them selves^[sic] woollen gloves — Some are reading Hymn books, or pretending. The small footmen are playing marbles under the trees.