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Seam finisher
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whipstitch
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Word definitions for whipstitch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whipstitch \Whip"stitch`\, v. t. (Agric.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land. [Eng.] To sew by passing the thread over and over; to overcast; whip.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A stitch that passes diagonally over an edge. 2 (context derogatory archaic English) A tailor. 3 Anything hastily put or stitched together; a hasty composition. 4 (cx colloquial English) A little bit, especially a small interval of time; an instant. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: whipping , whipstitching ]
Usage examples of whipstitch.
Seems like all there ever was to do was chores, and I thought, I may as well do the washing and the cooking for my own man in my own house instead of letting Mama boss me every whipstitch doing the selfsame tasks at home.
Ridley kept putting the whipstitch border on what was going to be a jacket in another three weeks of spare-time work.
P westbound stopped at every little whipstitch, either to handle freight or maybe so the engineer could take a leak, and partly because the farther west in Kansas they went, the fewer people there were who could come together and make a town.
The girls used white yarn to whipstitch the two pieces of vinyl together.
Broad patches of feathers were sheared away, revealing whipstitched gashes and a bulging packed wound in the gryphon's shoulder, with an exit wound in his upper back.