tricoter — meaning in English

English meaning

• knead verb To press, fold, and work a soft mixture (especially dough) with the hands until it becomes smooth and even.
• knit verb To make fabric or a garment by looping yarn together, either by hand with needles or by machine.

Senses

tricoter is used for these senses in English:

• knead (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
• make biscuits (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) Of a cat, to knead with the front paws.

knead — full definition

1. verb To press, fold, and work a soft mixture (especially dough) with the hands until it becomes smooth and even.
2. verb Of a cat: to push its paws rhythmically against a soft surface, an instinctive behaviour left over from kittenhood.

knit — full definition

1. verb To make fabric or a garment by looping yarn together, either by hand with needles or by machine.
2. verb To join closely together, or (of a broken bone) to grow back together and heal.

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