stitch

About 2.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. A single pass of a surgical suture

   I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.

2. noun A single pass of a surgical suture

   I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.

3. noun An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.

   cross stitch

4. noun An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.

   I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.

5. noun A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.

   a stitch in the side

6. noun A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn

   drop a stitch

7. noun An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
8. noun A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.

Similar words

sew run up sew together sewing buttonhole mesh skin suture juncture overcasting

Often followed by

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Word family

stitched stitcher stitchers stitches stitching