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crewels

crewels is the plural of crewel.

crewels is the alternative form of cruels.

Meaning of crewel

Noun

crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)

  1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
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Meaning of cruels

Noun

cruels pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) swelling in the lymph glands of neck, caused by scrofula

Questions about crewels

What is crewels the plural of?
Crewels is the plural of crewel.

Words near crewels in the dictionary

  1. crewed up
  2. Creweian
  3. crewel
  4. crewelled
  5. crewelling
  6. crewels
  7. crewelwork
  8. crewelworks
  9. crewer
  10. crewers
  11. crewes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crewels (page history and authors); crewel (page history and authors); cruels (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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