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Hemstitched

Hemstitch \Hem"stitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hemstitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hemstitching.] [Hem + stitch.] To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

Hemstitched

Hemstitched \Hem"stitched\, a. Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

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hemstitched

vb. (en-past of: hemstitch)

Usage examples of "hemstitched".

Then, with a savage gleam in her eye, she whisked off all the fancy linens, the Cluny laces, the hemstitched bedspreads, and piled them in a heap on the floor.

By the time they had found it, half his cranium had been replaced in silver, with weird new bionics crystal cells, lab-grown just for him, hemstitched in for good measure.

You had no say in the matter when a team of us hemstitched that foot to your stump.