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Knead   /nid/   Listen
Knead

verb
(past & past part. kneaded; pres. part. kneading)
1.
Make uniform.  Synonym: work.  "Work the clay until it is soft"
2.
Manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes.  Synonyms: massage, rub down.






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"Knead" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kitchen-jack turnrostilo. Kitchen utensils kuirilaro. Kite (bird) milvo. Kite (toy) flugludilo. Knack lerteco. Knacker defelisto. Knapsack tornistro. Knave fripono. Knave (cards) lakeo. Knavery friponeco. Knead knedi. Kneading-trough knedujo. Knee genuo. Kneecap genuosto. Kneel genufleksi. Knell mortsonorado, funebra sonorado. Knife trancxilo. Knife-blade trancxanto. Knight kavaliro. Knit triki, trikoti. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... Frenchman prate; Yet, pray, don't take it as annoyance! Why, all at once, exhaust the joyance? Your bliss is by no means so great As if you'd use, to get control, All sorts of tender rigmarole, And knead and shape her to your thought, As ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... and die? A bier is easy to buy, A honey-cake I'll knead you with joy, This garland ...
— Lysistrata • Aristophanes

... they were eating,—those reserves,—they were eating as I had never seen men eat but once, at Kaskaskia. The baker stood by with lifted palms, imploring the saints that he might have some compensation, until Clark sent him back to his shop to knead and bake again. The good Creoles approached the fires with the contents of their larders in their hands. Terence tossed me a loaf the size of a ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... Churchman, answered. "The more heretics killed, the more sins forgiven. Remember that, brother, and spare not if your soul be burdened! They blaspheme God and call Him paste! In the paste of their own blood," he continued ferociously, "I will knead them and roll them out, saith the good Father ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman


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