The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stitch \Stitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stitched; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
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(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.
Usage examples of "to stitch up".
Then he threaded a curving needle and began to stitch up the deepest cut.
No sooner had he finished the incision and staunched the flow of blood than he began to stitch up the patient'.
He hired a tailor to stitch up the collar so close, that it was ready to choke him, and squeezed out his eyes at such a rate, as one could see nothing but the white.
I thought that's what they'd need in California: someone to stitch up grizzly bear bites and slashes from knife brawls.
At the arrival of W-l, Sarah had moved back out of the way, and now she slowly turned and stripped off the gloves that she had put on in preparing to stitch up Clarences wound.
With some thirty souls to hand, there was an immediate call on my mildly rusty services, to stitch up wounds and treat fevers, to lance abscessed boils and scrape infectcd gums.
Luckily Good is a very decent surgeon, and so soon as his small box of medicines was forthcoming, having thoroughly cleansed the wounds, he managed to stitch up first Sir Henry's and then his own pretty satisfactorily, considering the imperfect light given by the primitive Kukuana lamp in the hut.