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sewing - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sewing'

English

Verb

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  • Noun

  • The action of the verb to sew .
  • Something that is being or has been sewn.
  • She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
    The sewing has come undone on this seam.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.

    Derived terms

    * sewing machine

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