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Definition of Sewing-machine stitch
1. Noun. A sewing stitch made by a sewing machine, sometimes using more than one thread.
Specialized synonyms: Lockstitch
Generic synonyms: Embroidery Stitch, Sewing Stitch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewing-machine Stitch
Literary usage of Sewing-machine stitch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: Comprising Annals by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1868)
"... announced to the foreman of his machine shop that he would make a stitch that
would supersede the sewing machine stitch ; and subsequently explained, ..."
3. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Lock-stitch A sewing-machine stitch in which t'ie lower thread is made to pass
over the upper one, »imply interlocking therewith ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... were closed by a sewing-machine stitch with a special needle devised by Quain,
which assures absolute hemostasis and a saving of time. ..."
5. Mashallah! A Flight Into Egypt by Charles Warren Stoddard (1881)
"... on the sail unraveled like a sewing-machine stitch and the sail filled in a
moment. " Job and Sarah" had nothing to do with this brilliant Nilotic feat. ..."
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