sew

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  1. transitive verb To make, repair, or fasten by stitching, as with a needle and thread or a sewing machine: sew a dress; sew on a button.
  2. transitive verb To furnish with stitches for the purpose of closing, fastening, or attaching: sew an incision closed.
  3. intransitive verb To work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.

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  • Since my early childhood I had been taught to sew, and I had ideas of my own about the way I wanted things made. —  Madeleine An Autobiography
  • There she learned to bake and cook and manage, to knit, sew, and embroider; also to spin and weave, in country places. —  The Promised Land
  • Then I was made to sew, and then clean and polish his leather. —  Kajira Of Gor
  • If given a work to play or a piece of embroidery already designed and ready to sew, they would go about playing the piece or embroidering the design with mechanical perfection. —  Elvenblood
  • You will be taught to cook and sew, and to polish boots and scrub floors. —  Mercenaries Of Gor
 

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  1. Middle English sewen, from Old English seowian; see syū- in Indo-European roots.

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