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/stˈɪtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Stitching n.

The act of one who stitches.

Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.

verb

Stitch v. t. (past & past part. stitched; pres. part. stitching)

To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

(Agric.) To form land into ridges.

To stitch up, to mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery.

Stitch v. i. To practice stitching, or needlework.

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Etymology of 'Stitching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The bag was merely labelled "Forwarding Mail" in letters that could be seen at ninety feet. My own letter, of course, I could read very well, to every dotted 'i' and crossed 't' and the stitching in Catherine's little kerchief. But I could not make out the address printed on the form that was pasted across the ...

— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith

... delusion trap, and attempted to take it to her school, to show her children, but it was dead when she got there. In winter it makes little tunnels under the snow in the woods, now and then coming to the surface, and, after a few jumps, diving under the snow again. Its tracks are like the most delicate stitching. I have never found its nest or seen its young. Like all the shrews, it lives ...

— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs

... at tea, would tell in the most incidental way of something that had happened during the day, and then, in his sliding, slipping, repetitious, back-stitching fashion, would move round from one indifferent topic to another until he managed at last to stumble over ...

— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston

... middle-finger with a bottomless thimble of our own sort, I set him to sewing the cotton-lining into one leg, knowing that it was a part not very particular, and not very likely to be seen; so that the matter was not great, whether the stitching was exactly regular, or rather in the zigzag line. As is customary with all new beginners, he made a desperate awkward hand at it, and of which I would of course have said nothing, but that he chanced to brog ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir

... lost in carrying out this decision, and in a few minutes mother and son were locked in the boy's room, and busy stitching the precious pieces of bunting into one of the quilts. It never occurred to them to ask what they would do or how they would feel if some half-clad, shivering rebel should find his way into the room and walk off with that quilt without ...

— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon

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