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Hemstitching   Listen
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Hemstitch  v. t.  (past & past part. hemstitched; pres. part. hemstitching)  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.






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"Hemstitching" Quotes from Famous Books



... Betty's manners and the Governor's health, and her timid wonder that the Bible "countenanced" slavery. She was rare and elegant like a piece of fine point lace; her hands had known no harder work than the delicate hemstitching, and her mind had never wandered over ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow



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