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Granny-square

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: NA

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ExampleMeaning
No, I haven't done...what I've been doing, I used to knit, crochet afghans and they were the small squares, the granny-squares and I always crocheted enough and made a pillow cover and always sent a couple of those or one of those anyway each year and this year I'm sending, I've already done it, three long scarves with a fringe on the end you know.
A piece of square fabric produced in crochet by working in rounds from the center outward.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um one of the things the girls had to do is either knit or crochet, and I started them off in the crouchering department doing the granny-square. Interviewer: Is that ah where you make like a tube? Speaker: No, this is where you make a square. And the trouble with that was that I made them read the instructions first. Like I showed them what the- what the stitches were and how to do- how to do the stitches, but then I handed each one of them a pattern for this granny-square and they had to learn to read the pattern and do what the pattern said.
A piece of square fabric produced in crochet by working in rounds from the center outward.