Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. · To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. · Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. · To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe act of kneading something.
From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).
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