Crossword-Solution: BACKSTITCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backstitch | n. | A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end. |
| Backstitch | v. i. | To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam. |
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| type of sewing stitch | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BACKSTITCH (5)
Taking a blue winsey petticoat of her own, drawing it in round his waist, and tying it over the chemise which was his only garment, she found, as she had expected, that its hem reached his feet: she partly divided it up the middle, before and behind, and had but to backstitch two short seams, and there was a pair of sailor-like trousers, as tidy as comfortable! Gibbie was delighted with them.
Will you, sir, forward the same by return of post, to your obliged and devoted Humble servant, ADOLPHUS JULIO BACKSTITCH.
Nowadays folks don't have to sew unless they want to, but when I was a child there warn't any sewin'-machines, and it was about as needful for folks to know how to sew as it was for 'em to know how to eat; and every child that was well raised could hem and run and backstitch and gether and overhand by the time she was nine years old.
What stitch is: Hard to live with? (Cross stitch.) A part of a cough? (Hemstitch.) A part of a window? (Blindstitch.) Is found on a fowl? (Featherstitch.) Is a fish and something everyone has? (Herring-bone.) Is made of many links? (Chainstitch.) Is not forward? (Backstitch.) Is useless without a key? (Lockstitch.) Repeats itself? (Over and over stitch.) For a prize for the best answers give a little leather sewing case fitted with needles and thread.
The writer of the article on sewing machines states that John Knowles invented and constructed a sewing machine, which used a single thread and a two-pointed needle with the eye in the middle to form the backstitch.