2. Verb. (third-person singular of hemstitch) ¹
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Definition of Hemstitches
1. hemstitch [v] - See also: hemstitch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemstitches
Literary usage of Hemstitches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blood of Things: A Second Book of Free Forms by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"... AND hemstitches BELL I'm full of children this morning. I can feel them flying
kites all the way up and down my veins. You never saw such black eyes, ..."
2. The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1918)
"... battery were being served and fired in rapid succession the blazes ran together
like hemstitches, making one think of a fiery needle plying in and out ..."
3. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... (Bee-hah- oo'-rah), his wife, sits near by and hemstitches like a Mexican
needlewoman, after one lesson from me. But I am anticipating—as I sometimes ..."
4. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1895)
"... single or double, or the hemstitches, elaborate darning and buttonholing, in
which Maria delights and excels. Gradually one learns to know the petals of ..."
5. Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton, James Albert Winans (1920)
"Ask a woman or girl how she hemstitches a handkerchief, or a boy how he swims or
throws a curve, and note the involved and inaccurate accounts. ..."
6. Money for the Woman who Wants it: A Practical Presentation of the Principles by Emmett Leroy Shannon (1920)
"Sometimes she rolls the hem and sews on fine lace over and over; or again she
hemstitches or feather stitches. For doing the work on a dozen damask lunch ..."
7. In Times Like These, by Nellie L. McClung by Nellie L. McClung (1915)
"The well-brought-up young lady diligently prepares for marriage; makes doilies,
and hemstitches linen; gets her blue trunk ready and—waits. ..."
8. Surgical Operations: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Friedrich Pels-Leusder (1912)
"... clamps and ligates the bloodvessels that protrude from the liver tissue, or,
when ligatures do not hold, hemstitches all around the liver wound a flap ..."
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