Usually means: Press and fold dough repeatedly.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word knead:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. knead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knead: Merriam-Webster
  3. knead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knead: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knead: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knead, knead: Wordnik
  8. knead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knead: Wiktionary
  10. knead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knead: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Knead, knead: Dictionary.com
  14. knead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Knead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knead: Rhymezone
  20. knead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. knead: FreeDictionary.org
  23. knead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. knead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. knead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knead: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. knead: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knead: Easton Bible

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See kneadable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
verb:  (intransitive, felinology) Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
verb:  (transitive) To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
noun:  The act of kneading something.

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