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Hockling vs Hookling - What's the difference?

hockling | hookling |

As a verb hockling

is .

As a noun hookling is

(historical|rare) a process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.

hockling

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Verb

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    • hookling

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  • (historical, rare) A process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.
  • * 1840–1860 , Mary Boykin Chesnut, Civil War journal'' (revised version) quoted by Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld in her ''Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography , chapter four: “1840–1860”, page 44
    • Now?—?as I sit here writing I see half a dozen carriages under the shade of the trees?—?coachmen on their boxes, talking, laughing &c?—?some hookling , they call it. They have a bone hook some thing like a crochet needle?—?and they hook them selves woollen gloves?—?Some are reading Hymn books, or pretending. The small footmen are playing marbles under the trees.