The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crochet \Cro*chet"\ (kr?-sh?"), n. [F. crochet small hook. See Croche.] A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.
WordNet
n. a needle with a hook on the end; used in crocheting [syn: crochet needle]
Wikipedia
A crochet hook (or crochet needle) is an implement used to make loops in thread or yarn and to interlock them into crochet stitches. It is basically a round shaft pointed on one end, with a lateral groove behind it. The point eases the insertion of the hook through the material being crocheted and the groove makes it possible to pull a loop back through the material. The shaft is then divided into a working area that determines the hook's nominal diameter and ensures the uniform sizing of the loops formed on it, and a handle.
Usage examples of "crochet hook".
She fished in her purse again and drew out a ball of string and a crochet hook.
One of them involved me removing a crochet hook from a man's ear last week.
M'sera Johanssen shrugged, reached into her small bag and took out a nearly-finished sweater, a ball of coarse brown yarn and a crochet hook.
She felt for that change, as she would have fumbled in the shadowy house for her crochet hook in its bag of yarn.
Antryg reached under the carved oak chair for a last crochet hook.
Jessica said, bringing out a crochet hook of her own and showing it to him.
She also had squirreled away the ivory crochet hook, three of Frex's prayer beads because she liked the carvings, and the pretty green glass bottle left behind by some itinerant salesman selling, apparently, dreams and passion and somnolence.
Entering her prison-house with a listless step she took off her hat, hung it on a plaster bust of Minerva, opened the shutters, leaned out to see if there were any eggs in the swallow's nest above one of the windows, and finally, seating herself behind the desk, drew out a roll of cotton lace and a steel crochet hook.
She spent hours reading before a blazing fire, and hours more at Verity's with yarn and crochet hook in hand.
She had wads of cotton and she was shoving them into the back of the cloth with a crochet hook.
The girl thinned her lips at him, shrugged, indolently put down her crochet hook and took up her clothes.
The search of the kender's four pockets and seven pouches revealed three pieces of rose quartz, a silver ring, two money pouches, one crochet hook, three coins, six maps, a fragment of red leather, seven balls of twine, a chunk of yellow cheese, one child's leather sandal decorated with fake gems of colored glass, half a loaf of brown bread, some metal implements that Tarscenian recognized as lock-picking tools, and a quill pen.