Word Meanings - CATSTITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

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• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• STITCH
  A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
• ZIGZAGGY
  Having sharp turns. Barham.
• ZIGZAG
  A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3. (more info) 1. Something that has short turns or angles. The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag.
• STITCHER
  One who stitches; a seamstress.
• COARSEN
  To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
• COARSENESS
  The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.
• STITCHING
  1. The act of one who stitches. 2. Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.
• ZIGZAGGERY
  The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness. The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches. Sterne.
• STITCHERY
  Needlework; -- in comtempt. Shak.
• COARSE-GRAINED
  Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
• STITCHWORT
  See STICHWORT
• STITCHEL
  A kind of hairy wool.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• HEMSTITCHED
  Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• GARTER STITCH
  The simplest stitch in knitting.
• CROSS-STITCH
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.
• CATSTITCH
  To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
• SPLIT STITCH
  A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• UNSTITCH
  To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.
• SET-STITCHED
  Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.
• SPIDER STITCH
  A stitch in lace making used to fill in open spaces with threads resembling a cobweb.
• HEMSTITCH
  To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.