Meaning of hookling | Babel Free

Definitions

A process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.

historical, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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 like a crochet needle — and they hook them selves woollen gloves — Some are reading Hymn books, or pretending. The small footmen are playing marbles under the trees.”

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