Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sew   /soʊ/   Listen
verb
Sew  v. t.  To follow; to pursue; to sue. (Obs.)


Sew  v. t.  (past sewed; past part. sewn; pres. part. sewing)  
1.
To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. "No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment."
2.
To close or stop by ssewing; often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
3.
To inclose by sewing; sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.


Sew  v. t.  To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. (Obs.)


Sew  v. i.  (past sewed; past part. sewn; pres. part. sewing)  To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.


noun
Sew  n.  Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. (Obs.) "I will not tell of their strange sewes."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Sew" Quotes from Famous Books



... him with cold dignity, but flushed a little. "I am not unwomanly, senor, although I confess I do not understand babies and do detest to sew. But if I ever marry I shall be a good wife and mother. No Spanish woman was ever otherwise, for every Spanish woman has had a ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... injured member, whence the sawdust blood had issued through a deep incision in the cloth, Donald replied seriously, "It will require a rather serious operation, but I guess that I can mend it with the assistance of Nurse Smiles. We will have to sew up the wound and ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson
... steps in the manufacture of clothes are four: first to harvest and clean the fiber or wool; second, to card it and spin it into threads; third, to weave the threads into cloth; and, finally to fashion and sew the cloth into clothes. We have already seen the influence of Eli Whitney's cotton gin on the first process, and the series of inventions for spinning and weaving, which so profoundly changed the textile ...
— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson
... in and out of the house, laughing, begging the daughter to sew on a button, sell them an egg, boys of nineteen and ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... of them filled up and left the room and we were free to sit at "the second table" and eat, while the men rested outside. David and William, however, generally had a belt to sew or a bent tooth to take out of the "concave." This seemed of grave dignity to us and we respected ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com