Definition of Hemmer

1. n. One who, or that which, hems with a needle.

Definition of Hemmer

1. Noun. One who, or that which, hems. ¹

2. Noun. A device, attached to a sewing machine, that turns over the edge of a fabric before stitching it down ¹

3. Noun. A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemmer

1. one that hems [n -S] - See also: hems

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemmer

hemline
hemline theory
hemlines
hemlock
hemlock tree
hemlock water dropwort
hemlock woolly adelgid
hemlock woolly adelgids
hemlocks
hemloite
hemmed
hemmed and hawed
hemmed in
hemmel
hemmels
hemmer (current term)
hemmers
hemming
hemming-stitch
hemming and hawing
hemming filter
hemming in
hemo-
hemochromatoses
hemochromatosis
hemochrome
hemochromes
hemocoel
hemocoels
hemocompatibility

Literary usage of Hemmer

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

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"hemmer. any of the drugs which have been prescribed in good faith by a physician ... (241 Ü. S. 379) LOUIS hemmer, William W. Fletcher, JE Peart, et al. ..."

2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"136, 123 CCA 366, holding unpatented mining claims are still "public lands"; hemmer v. United States, 204 Fed. 904, 123 CCA 194, discussing power of Indians ..."

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