crewelwork

1. 1.

   embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn

   Broaderembroidery

Other forms of crewelwork

plural

crewelworks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crewelwork

What does crewelwork mean?

crewelwork means "embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn".

How many syllables are in crewelwork?

crewelwork has 3 syllables: cre-wel-work. The stress falls on "cre".

Is crewelwork a common word?

crewelwork is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.