Lexic.us

Definition of Machine stitch

1. Noun. A sewing stitch made by a sewing machine, sometimes using more than one thread.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Stitch

Literary usage of Machine stitch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library School Bulletin by New York State Library, New York State Library School, University of the State of New York (1917)
"7 machine stitch first and last signatures. ... 11 machine stitch newspapers and bind in half duck, paper sides and vellum corners. 12 Pamphlets. ..."

2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"It was the first machine- stitch in which the thread was continuous, the previous attempts having all been in imitation of hand-sewing, with a certain ..."

3. First Course in General Science by Frederic Delos Barber, Merton Leonard Fuller, John Lossen Pricer, Howard William Adams (1916)
"Head of a rotary-hook machine. stitch depend upon the speed with which the needle acts or upon the motion of the feed? Be certain that you understand the ..."

4. First Course in General Science by Frederic Delos Barber, Merton Leonard Fuller, John Lossen Pricer, Howard William Adams (1916)
"Just how is the length of the stitch regulated? Does the length of the FIG. 329.—Head of a rotary-hook machine. stitch depend upon the speed with which the ..."

5. The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education by Associated Principles of the High Schools and Academies of the State of New York (1890)
"How to use the hands. How to use the scissors. Practice work : 1. Basting stitch. 2. Running stitch. 3. Back stitch. 4. Imitation machine stitch. 5. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"In introducing the sewing-machine stitch the following method is employed : The needle is passed through the tissue and the loose end caught and drawn out a ..."

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