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Meaning:
Noun:
- A furrow. (Chapman)
- A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- colloquial Any least part of a fabric or dress.
- Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
- obsolete A contortion, or twist.
- sports An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling downwards on the diaphragm during exercise.
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Verb:
- agriculture To form land into ridges.
- intransitive To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- To sew, or unite by stitches.
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