knead

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1. knead - Noun

2. knead - Verb

Meaning

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.

Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. Louis Agassiz

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school. Richard Flanagan

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy. Delia Smith

It's easy to knead when meal is at hand. Irish Proverb

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough. French Proverb

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