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Stitch   /stɪtʃ/   Listen
noun
Stitch  n.  
1.
A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
2.
A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
3.
A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. "You have gone a good stitch." "In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows."
4.
A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side. "He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy."
5.
A contortion, or twist. (Obs.) "If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry."
6.
Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. (Colloq.)
7.
A furrow.
8.
An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.
Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary.
Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.


verb
Stitch  v. t.  (past & past part. stitched; pres. part. stitching)  
1.
To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
2.
To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
3.
(Agric.) To form land into ridges.
To stitch up, to mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery.


Stitch  v. i.  To practice stitching, or needlework.





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"Stitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lady Clara was in a wilful mood, and could be provoking enough when the fit came on her. Just now she was embroidering diligently. The golden stamens of a superb cactus glowed out stitch by stitch, as her needle flew in and out of its great purplish and ...
— The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals • Ann S. Stephens
... needle, she marked out the warp and woof; and, following the way the threads were joined, she first and foremost connected the foundation, and then keeping to the original lines, she went backwards and forwards mending the hole; passing her work, after every second stitch, under further review. But she did not ply her needle three to five times, before she lay herself down on her pillow, and ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... of Spain, Eight mighty galleons, nosing out their trail. And Drake growled, "Oh, my lads of Bideford, It cuts my heart to show the hounds our heels; But we must not emperil our great quest! Such fights as that must wait—as our reward When we return. Yet I will not put on One stitch of sail. So, lest they are not too slow To catch us, clear the decks. God, I would like To fight them!" So the little fleet advanced With decks all cleared and shotted guns and men Bare-armed beside them, hungering to be caught, And quite distracted from their former doubts; For danger, ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... the supreme moment of meeting very differently, but she might well have chosen worse. She unpinned her skirt and brushed the threads off, smoothed the pew cushions carefully, and took a last stitch in the ragged hassock. She then lifted the Bible and the hymn-book from the rack, and putting down a bit of flannel on the pulpit steps, took a flatiron from an oil-stove, and opening the ancient books, pressed out the well-thumbed leaves one by one with infinite care. After replacing the volumes ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... kept up a good pace, half-running, half-striding, till they had passed the railway, and he found himself gasping with a stitch in his side, and compelled to rest in the lee of what had once been a sheepfold. Saskia amazed him. She moved over the rough heather like a deer, and it was her hand that helped him across the deeper hags. Before such youth and vigour he felt ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan


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