SMOCKING

smocking

(noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

smocking (countable and uncountable, plural smockings)

(sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.

Verb

smocking

present participle of smock

Anagrams

• mockings

Source: Wiktionary

SMOCK

Smock, n. Etym: [AS. smoc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle.]

1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.

Smock, a.

Definition: Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.

– Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]

Smock, v. t.

Definition: To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition