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Overcasting

noun
1.
A long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling.  Synonym: overcast.


Overcast

verb
1.
Make overcast or cloudy.  Synonym: cloud.
2.
Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches.
3.
Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next.





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"Overcasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... had grown more violent, and great clouds, ominous with rain, were now overcasting the sky. Her sister could hardly have reached the corner of the street, when Delmia thought she heard a slight noise in the bedroom. She bent her head and listened attentively. "It is nothing; my ears often deceive me now," she mumbled ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... time. On Thursday the river was so out of order that I left the salmon rod in its rack in the barn and drove up to Manflo lake, arriving there in time to see the effects of an apparently innocent occurrence of thunder and lightning. There was no storm or overcasting of the heavens, only a single discharge from one wandering cloud, yet it fired the forests in two places, and we saw the columns of white smoke of the conflagration. With thunder all around the hills it did not seem promising for the trout; still we had driven eight ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior


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