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Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by..

Seamstress :: Seamstress (n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.

Palm :: Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc..

Trachelorrhaphy :: Trachelorrhaphy (n.) The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

Chain Stitch :: Chain stitch () An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery..

Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch..

Ruffler :: Ruffler (n.) That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Goosewinged :: Goosewinged (a.) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Patch :: Patch (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat..

Suture :: Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam..

Marker :: Marker (n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

Unsew :: Unsew (v. t.) To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of..

Take-up :: Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch..

Stitchwort :: Stitching (n.) Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively..

Sharp :: Sharp (n.) A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps..

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.)..

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both..

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