STITCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stitching mean? 

• STITCHING (noun)
  The noun STITCHING has 1 sense:

1. joining or attaching by stitches

  Familiarity information: STITCHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STITCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joining or attaching by stitches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sewing; stitching

Hypernyms ("stitching" is a kind of...):

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stitching"):

blind stitching (stitching that is not easily seen or noticed)

suturing (surgical joining of two surfaces)

Derivation:

stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

 Context examples 

Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove," continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She nodded, sighed, and went on stitching.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A surgical procedure performed to prevent a miscarriage by stitching the opening of the cervix closed.

(Cervical Cerclage, NCI Thesaurus)

He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind a door: Bring up that tea and bread-and-butter! which, after some time, during which I sat looking about me and thinking, and listening to the stitching in the room and the tune that was being hammered across the yard, appeared on a tray, and turned out to be for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker’s bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Half resolving never to return, she went home, and worked off her irritation by stitching pinafores vigorously, and in an hour or two was cool enough to laugh over the scene and long for next week.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)