crewel

English

Alternative forms

• cruel

Noun

crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)

1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Translations

worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery

• Hungarian: hímzőfonal (hu)
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Verb

crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling, simple past and past participle crewelled)

1. (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.

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Middle English

Adjective

crewel

1. Alternative form of cruel