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noun

Seam n. Grease; tallow; lard. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

Seam n.

1.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

2.

Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc. "Precepts should be so finely wrought together... that no coarse seam may discover where they join."

3.

(Geol. & Mining) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

4.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

Seam blast, a blast made by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks.

Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; called also seaming lace.

Seam presser. (Agric.)

(a)

A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows.

(b)

A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams.

Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.

Seam n. A denomination of weight or measure. Specifically:

(a)

The quantity of eight bushels of grain. "A seam of oats."

(b)

The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. (Eng.)

verb

Seam v. t. (past & past part. seamed; pres. part. seaming)

1.

To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

2.

To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. "Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave."

3.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

Seam v. i. To become ridgy; to crack open. "Later their lips began to parch and seam."

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"Seam" Quotes from Famous Books

... the marble bled. What matters the water? A hope I have nursed, That the waterless cup will quench my thirst.' —Better have knelt at the poorest stream That trickles in pain from the straitest rift! For the less or the more is all God's gift, Who blocks up or breaks wide the granite seam. And here, is there water or not, ...

— A Dish Of Orts • George MacDonald

... buttons and a Keda, showing that her first efforts won only third and second class honors, but she persevered until she reached the first class. She knows Sahwah can swim well because she has a fish on the side seam of her gown, which is the place for local or national honors. She knows Chapa must be very dexterous in Handcraft, for she has a great many green beads on her thong. And then she sees you—with a number of gaudy and meaningless beads sewn ...

— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey

... some pinafores yesterday," continued the fretful voice, "I wish you would run up the seams of those on the machine—french-seam them, please—and if I get time I'll show you how ...

— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke

... learned that great white creature her letters? Hadn't I spent dollars on her for slates and pencils, besides taking her to the maple camps when she was a little girl, and giving her no end of sweet sap to drink. Who was it but me that turned down her first over-and-over seam, and gave her a tentie-tointy silver thimble to take the stitches with. I wonder what she did with it? Now she was happy to make my acquaintance, and dragged a double winrow of worked flounces, topped off with a muslin skirt ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... Pa., Friday, May 4.—Pilgrim, built for the glassy lakes and smooth-flowing rivers of Wisconsin, had suffered unwonted indignities in her rough journey of a thousand miles in a box-car. But beyond a leaky seam or two, which the Doctor had righted with clouts and putty, and some ugly scratches which were only paint-deep, she was in fair trim as she gracefully lay at the foot of the Brownsville shipyard this morning and ...

— Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites

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