SEWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sewn mean? 

• SEWN (adjective)
  The adjective SEWN has 1 sense:

1. fastened with stitches

  Familiarity information: SEWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fastened with stitches

Synonyms:

sewed; sewn; stitched

Similar:

seamed (having or joined by a seam or seams)

 Context examples 

And if I had not sewn the boat together again, said the tailor, you would all have been drowned, therefore she is mine.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And the Tin Woodman saw that his terrible Beast was nothing but a lot of skins, sewn together, with slats to keep their sides out.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A thin piece of metal (usually gold) with radioactive seeds placed on one side is sewn onto the outside wall of the eye with the seeds aimed at the tumor.

(Plaque radiotherapy, NCI Dictionary)

Her jacket was black, with black beads sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This huge sack had been sewn up at one end and only a small orifice left at the other.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When sewn into a shirt, these yarns served as a self-powered breathing monitor.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The bundle was sewn together, and the doctor had to get out his instrument case and cut the stitches with his medical scissors.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A whisper of the gold-rush had reached his ears, and he had come with several bales of furs, and another of gut-sewn mittens and moccasins.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With these words Mr. Brocklehurst put into my hand a thin pamphlet sewn in a cover, and having rung for his carriage, he departed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If you travel with your romantic partner/spouse, the trip you take in the last week of March (from March 24 onward) will create a tapestry sewn with golden threads that you will remember forever.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)