Terms vs Hookling - What's the difference?
terms | hookling |
(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”,
As nouns the difference between terms and hookling
is that terms is while hookling is (historical|rare) a process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.hookling
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- 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.
