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kneading

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Kneading is a process in the making of bread or pasta dough , used to mix the ingredients and add strength to the final product. Its importance lies in the mixing of flour with water . When these two ingredients are combined and kneaded, the gliadin and ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knead \Knead\ (n[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kneaded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Kneading .] [OE. kneden, As. cnedan; akin to D. kneden, G. kneten, Sw. kn[*a]da, Icel. kno[eth]a; cf. OSlav. gnesti.] To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process by which something is kneaded. vb. (present participle of knead English)

Usage examples of kneading.

I turned, tried to run, slipped on slush, and scrambled up, but Beane was on me, grabbing me, locking my body against his, kneading my breasts, clutching my sex, moaning and crying, trying to kiss me.

I began kneading my hands, and her breath came faster and I felt her nipples rise, even through my costume.

Xiao Fei had returned to his shoulders, pressing and kneading the muscles there until his skin tingled with awareness.

But it proved to be a vigorous rubbing and pummeling and kneading of my entire body, more energetically done than the hammam rubbing, and with the intent not of extruding dirt from the skin, but of exercising every part in a manner to make one feel even healthier and more invigorated than a hammam bath can do.

They had cut Kadir Lingh loose, and he was kneading his legs and arms.

Ingrith was leaning over the shoulder of the heavyset cook, Signe, who was kneading the flat, unleavened manchet bread dough for baking.

She sought his arms, probing the traumatized laterals, kneading them to pliability again.

A blackened tin of water was already boiling and Mtome was squatting beside the glowing oven of stones, kneading posho into a dough.

Under his dark eyebrows, Junior glared at his father, kneading the wooden baluster at the bottom of the stairs.

Cerryl trudged back out to the kitchen, where Beryal was kneading read.

I swayed off balance when he removed his fingers, trailing them down to the tops of my stockings, kneading the soft flesh of my inner thighs.

She is thinking about change, he is kneading her lumbar as she recalls how certain traits continue -- although they appear transformed as something else -- how a tribe called the Nuba performed their Nazi rituals in the desert.

The hands have not the power, by kneading, manipulating, or rubbing to impress the system except in a very mild degree, and deep-seated organs and parts are scarcely influenced by the comparatively slow movements thus administered.

Spagg made a sandpapery sound with his filthy fingers, as if kneading dough.

Pleased to see his control cracking, she removed her hands from under his shirt and began kneading his thighs, avoiding the hard ridge of male flesh that strained against his trousers.