crewel

• cruel

Of unknown origin; earlier forms include crule, crewle, and croole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuː.əl/, /ˈkɹuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːəl, -uːl
• Homophone: cruel

crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)

1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
   • 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

     First for a May-fly: you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color

crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle (US) creweling or (UK) crewelling, simple past and past participle (US) creweled or (UK) crewelled)

1. (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.

crewel

1. alternative form of cruel