Whipstitch: Definition and part of speech

Whipstitch

  1. v. t. To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.
  2. n. A tailor; — so called in contempt.
  3. n. Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition.
  4. n. The act or process of whipstitching.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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