Definition of "crewel"

crewel

/ˈkɹuː.əl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural crewels
1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
  Quotations
  First for a May-fly: you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color
  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, […]; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969,
verb
third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling or (US) creweling, simple past and past participle crewelled or (US) creweled
1. (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.