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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knead
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dough
▪ Lightly knead the dough on a floured surface, working in the candied peel, raisins and sultanas.
▪ Aunt Sarah was at the table, kneading the bread dough.
▪ Carmen Dominguez Hurtado is kneading dough.
▪ On a lightly floured board, knead the dough for a couple of minutes.
▪ Remove and knead dough 3 minutes.
▪ Turn machine on for 15 to 20 seconds longer to knead dough.
▪ Gretel kneaded the dough, then the witch told her to crawl inside the oven to see if it was hot enough.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He began kneading my sore shoulder muscles.
▪ She kneaded the dough and shaped it into loaves.
▪ The clay should be kneaded thoroughly to remove any bubbles of air.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
knead

knead \knead\, v. i. To perform movements like kneading, with the paws; -- said of cats, which may knead[3] a master's body when stroked, presumably a sign of contentment; as, a cat kneading and purring in his master's lap.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knead

Old English cnedan "to knead," from Proto-Germanic *knedan (cognates: Old Saxon knedan, Middle Dutch cneden, Dutch kneden, Old High German knetan, German kneten, Old Norse knoða "to knead"). Originally a strong verb (past tense cnæd, past participle cneden).

Wiktionary
knead

vb. 1 (senseid en to work and press into a mass)(context transitive English) 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. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. 3 (context intransitive of cats English) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.

WordNet
knead
  1. v. make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft" [syn: work]

  2. manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; "She rubbed down her child with a sponge" [syn: massage, rub down]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "knead".

A slight young woman, Mary developed strong muscles in the forearms as she grasped the areolar tissue, sometimes making Daisy squeal, rolled the large muscles of the calf and thigh firmly both ways and kneaded the belly with the heel of her hand.

Some time during the cruise their bread supply failed, and Ragnar steered his vessel into the port of Spangarhede, where he bade his men carry their flour ashore and ask the people in a hut which he descried there to help them knead and bake their bread.

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.

Stir just enough to make a stiff dough, toss on to the lightly floured molding board and knead another cupful of flour into it.

When you stir water into flour, the glutenin and gliadin come alive, connecting with the water and with each other to form gluten, a tough and stretchy substance that, when kneaded or stirred or stretched, forms the elastic network that gives structure to bread, but turns pastry and cakes tough and rubbery.

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.

Other Vrya, with less to occupy hands and minds, kneaded their Vrithli like clay, punching and pulling them into the shape they chose by whim or curiosity or obscure internal needs, ruthlessly squashing or lopping off any attempt of those Vrithli to grow in forbidden directions.

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.

The effort of describing the way the corpse was trussed seemed to rob the seraskier of his temper, but he kneaded the back of a chair with his fingers, making it creak.

Kneaded frankincense, shellac, vetiver and cinnamon into balls of incense.