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SEWED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sewed mean?
• SEWED (adjective)
The adjective SEWED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SEWED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fastened with stitches
Synonyms:
Similar:
seamed (having or joined by a seam or seams)
Context examples
So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Wolf Larsen and I, between us, cut off Kerfoot’s crushed finger and sewed up the stump.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Meg went to the other window, and sewed as if new rosettes for slippers were among the necessaries of life.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Only one hour in the twenty-four did she pass with her fellow-servants below; all the rest of her time was spent in some low-ceiled, oaken chamber of the second storey: there she sat and sewed—and probably laughed drearily to herself,—as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One summer’s morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This, under his direction, I cleansed and sewed together, having first shaved the edges of the wound.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was not a happy evening, for though they sewed as usual, while their mother read aloud from Bremer, Scott, or Edgeworth, something was wanting, and the sweet home peace was disturbed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He laid the bread near him, sewed on, and in his joy, made bigger and bigger stitches.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
While I toiled at rigging the foremast, Maud sewed on canvas, ready always to drop everything and come to my assistance when more hands than two were required.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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