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Answer for the clue "Temporary stitch ", 4 letters:
tack

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Tack \Tack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking .] [Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. take. See Tack a small nail.] To fasten or attach. ``In hopes of getting some commendam tacked to their sees.'' --Swift. ...

Usage examples of tack.

By the light of the remaining half, he and Alec located the small tack room and began pulling down saddles and gear.

Since Weston had taken it upon himself to accuse Alker, Cardona decided to try another tack.

He saw the pair over the side and stood watching as the aviso tacked out of the bay.

Over these noncommittal summits the bright eye of the bookseller, as he tacked up the freshly ironed muslin curtains Mrs.

Robin Broadhead had suffered a cerebrovascular accident, all right, but the lie that was tacked on said I was showing steady improvement.

One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur.

The ship started out as an Iranian knock-off of a Shenzhou-B capsule, with a Chinese-type 921 space-station module tacked onto its tail: but the clunky, nineteen-sixties lookalike a glittering aluminum dragonfly mating with a Coke can has a weirdly contoured M2P2 pod strapped to its nose.

The skipper of the coper had, in the meanwhile, by tacking, made an effort to keep his stolen boat in sight, but the night was dark, and the fear of a collision with a trawler made his endeavour a fruitless one, and he was compelled to lay to until daybreak would give him an opportunity of renewing his search.

She had completed the path to the old tack house and was heading back toward Alan and Cozy, the little headlights of the tractor dead in their eyes.

Like using a sledgehammer on thumbtacks: not good for the tacks or the wall, but devastatingly effective anyway.

On the following day we sighted Ancona, but the wind being against us we were compelled to tack about, and we did not reach the port till the second day.

And, boy, did they know from tack downhaul, kicking strap, mainsheet, clew outhaul, topping lift, boom, tack, reefing points, leech, spreader, foresail hanks, shrouds, inner forestay, stanchion, toe rail, and fin keel!

His best drawing so far, done in ink and colored pencils and showing a cross section of the esophageal tract and the airways, was tacked to a rafter above the table.

There may have been in the Army some habitual corner loafer, some fistic champion of the bar-room and brothel, some Terror of Plug Uglyville, who was worth the salt in the hard tack he consumed, but if there were, I did not form his acquaintance, and I never heard of any one else who did.

Across from the bed, tacked up for the view she was sure, was a life-sized poster of Mavis Freestone, exploding into a midair leap, arms extended, grin wide and full of fun.