knead´a|ble

knead «need», transitive verb.

1. to work over or work up (moist flour or clay), usually with the hands, into dough or paste: »

Machines have been invented to knead bread dough.

2. a) to make or shape by kneading. b) Figurative. to blend, join, or reduce to a common mass, as if by kneading.

3. to press and squeeze with the hands; massage: »

Kneading the muscles in a stiff shoulder will take away the stiffness.

╂[Old English cnedan]

–knead´a|ble, adjective.

–knead´er, noun.