tatting
- n needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle
- n the act or art of making handmade lace
- v make lacework by knotting or looping
- On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizenstatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine .
- ARMY NAVY For more than a month, churchmen and pacifist organizations have been rat-tat-tatting the White House with protests against the forthcoming naval maneuvers.
- From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously.