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Webster 1913 Edition
Sewing
Sew′ing
,Noun.
1.
The act or occupation of one who sews.
2.
That which is sewed with the needle.
Sewing horse
(Harness making)
, a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed.
– Sewing machine
, a machine for sewing or stitching.
– Sewing press
, or
Sewing table
(Bookbinding)
, a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to which the back edges of folded sheets are sewed to form a book.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sewing
SEW'ING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
sewing
sewing
English
Verb
sewing
- present participle of sew
Noun
sewing (countable and uncountable, plural sewings)
- The action of the verb to sew.
- Something that is being or has been sewn.
- She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
- The sewing has come undone on this seam.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.
Derived terms
Translations
action of the verb to sew
Something that is being or has been sewn