Definition of Serging

1. a process of finishing the raw edges of a fabric [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serging

sergeantry
sergeants
sergeants-at-arms
sergeants-major
sergeants major
sergeantship
sergeantships
sergeanty
sergeaunt
serged
sergeevite
serger
sergers
serges
serging (current term)
sergings
serglycin
serial
serial bond
serial bonds
serial comma
serial commas
serial extraction
serial file
serial files
serial film changer
serial interval
serial intervals
serial key

Literary usage of Serging

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

1. Decisions of the War Department Board of Contract Adjustments by Board of Contract Adjustment, United States, United States War Dept. Claims Board, War Dept (1921)
"4093-B. and out of the transactions relating to the serging. Claimant had a valid contract which was suspended, and the claim is not one to which the unit ..."

2. Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage-earners in the United States: In by Charles Patrick Neill, United States Bureau of Labor (1911)
"serging is usually left to beginners, frequently to children. ... The amount of serging done varies with the quality of the material used, and also with the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"There are now special machines or attachments for serging, felling, binding, seaming, seam-closing, two-row stitching, blind stitching, canvas front making, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"There are now special machines or attachments for serging, felling, binding, seaming, seam-closing, two-row stitching, blind stitching, canvas front making, ..."

5. Women and the Trades,Pittsburgh,1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Paul Underwood Kellogg (1909)
"... button sewing, tacking (for ends of pockets), serging edges of seams, and all double-needle work,—or the work is done without power by forceful pressure ..."

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