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Synonyms for stitch

Grammar : Verb
Spell : stich
Phonetic Transcription : stɪtʃ

Définition of stitch

Origin :
  • Old English stice "a prick, puncture," from Proto-Germanic *stikiz, from the root of stick (v.). The sense of "sudden, stabbing pain in the side" was in late Old English. Senses in sewing and shoemaking first recorded late 13c.; meaning "bit of clothing one is (or isn't) wearing" is from c.1500. Meaning "a stroke of work" (of any kind) is attested from 1580s. Surgical sense first recorded 1520s. Sense of "amusing person or thing" is 1968, from notion of laughing so much one gets stitches of pain (cf. verbal expression to have (someone) in stitches, 1935).
  • verb join together
  • verb sew
Example sentences :
  • "Now at last I am ready," she said, as she finished her first stitch.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • You reckermember my old sayin', don't you, 'a stitch in time saves nine'?
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • He measured these round his waist, and then began to stitch them together, slowly and laboriously.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • May stopped in the middle of a stitch, and stared at him with something akin to dismay.
  • Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
  • I had a stitch in my side, and both Harold's stockings had come down.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
  • I was goin' to stitch that blue stripe on the left leg on again.
  • Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
  • The needle is to be brought out at the corner of the stitch, nearest to that you are about to make.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • The engraving will give a better idea of this stitch than any description we could give.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • At the beginning of each row you slip the first stitch, and knit the second.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • You knit the first stitch, and pass the other to make a loop over the needle.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous

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