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▪ I. † ˈseaming, n. Obs.
A variety of apple.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Aug. 72 The Seaming Apple.
▪ II. seaming, vbl. n.|ˈsiːmɪŋ|
[f. seam v.2 + -ing1.]
a. The action of seam v.2; also concr., a seam or seams.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3205 Hire sons cote inconsutyle with out semyng. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. L ij b, Questyons vpon the Anathomy of seamynge or stytchynge. 1631T. Powell Tom of All Trades 47 Let them [i.e. your daughters] learne plaine workes of all kind, so they take heed of too open seaming. 1795Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 365 A kind of seaming, well known to those who make iron funnels for stoves. 1880Plain Hints 55 For those who are called upon to do seaming and felling, these [pieces of calico] will be divided, so as to form two pieces. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Seaming, the marginal line which surrounds a seine, and to which the meshes are seized.
b. attrib. and Comb., as seaming bar, seaming machine, seaming mallet, seaming stitch, seaming twine; seaming lace, lace used for insertion in or for covering and ornamenting seams; seaming plough, one for drawing seed-drills.
1795*Seaming bar [see seam v.2 3].
1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. v. 9 That weares such petticoates, and lace to her smocks, Broad *seaming laces (as I see 'hem hang there). 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Seaming-lace, a coach-maker's lace, used to cover seams and edges. 1865F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace 300 note, ‘Seaming’ lace and spacing lace appear to have been generally used at this period [Jas. I] to unite the breadths of linen, instead of a seam sewed. We find them employed for cupboard cloths,..shirts, &c. through⁓out the accounts of King James and Prince Charles.
1847Rep. Comm. Patents 1846 (U.S.) 214 My improved *seaming machine for turning down and forming a seam of the flange surrounding the bottoms of the buckets. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Seaming-machine, a machine for forming the joints at the edges of sheet-metal plates. 1884Ibid. Suppl., Seaming Machine. The Royer & Lincoln seamer..trims woven goods neatly and evenly; and joins the margin of cloth outside the seam.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 193 So much of the Sheet as lies over the Cavity is set down into it with the *Seaming-mallet.
1842E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 16 There may be a *seaming plough pass over the land,..to draw the drills; the seed may then be cast thinly.
1880Plain Hints 16 The shape of the *seaming⁓stitch is quite different to hemming.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 92 The seams..are..stitched up..with double *seaming twine. |
单词 seamfree 释义 seamfree, a. (and n.)|simfri|[f. seam n.1 + free a.]Of stockings: = sea......