Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversewed
Literary usage of Oversewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey (1916)
"If book is not oversewed the first and last sections must be guarded with ...
The rest must be oversewed. 3. In all other respects the preceding ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"... where, as in hemstitch, all the warp threads are drawn out, and the woof ones
are drawn together, and oversewed on a pattern. ..."
3. Autobiography, Correspondence, Etc., of Lyman Beecher, D.D. by Lyman Beecher, Charles Beecher (1866)
"... wrestling boys—no singing and shouting; and perhaps only a long seam on a
sheet to be oversewed as the sole means of beguiling the hours of absence. ..."
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