Stitch
- v. i. A furrow.
- v. i. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- v. i. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
- v. i. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
- v. i. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
- v. i. A contortion, or twist.
- v. i. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
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.