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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.