knead

Meanings

1. 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.
2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
3. Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

1. The act of kneading something.

1. simple past and past participle of knead

Etymology

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”).