Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A line of verse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
- n. A line in the Scriptures.
- n. A row or rank, as of trees.
- A simplified spelling of stitch.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of the Scriptures.
- n. obsolete A row, line, or rank of trees.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
- n. A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
- n. A row, line, or rank of trees.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek στίχος (stikhos, "line, row, verse"). Akin to στείχω (steikhō, "I go"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek stikhos; see steigh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Maybe crochet or cross-stich, as mentioned above, would be better pursuits.”
“This removes the chance that the SMS tickets cant be compiled on your mobile or the mobileoperator cant understand how to stich the several SMS-s together.”
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“With nice thread in bobbin and on the top of the machine, either do some FMQ, or just stich some simple lines, etc.”
“I haven't done a stich of laundry, cooked or cleaned all week.”
“Sg's grandmother passed just a few days before the holiday and since I am a crafty one, much of her 80+ years of yarn, needlepoint, cross-stich, fabric and crocheting came to me just a few days after the holiday.”
“Anovver wun fur teh “gotta stich tihs up inna sampler” list!”
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“I agree with you that there seems to be something of a stich-up going on.”
“Then, by hand, stich closed the gap in the waistband where you threaded the elastic.”
“August 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm hey chad way to go and i did enjoy the joke…… busted a stich or two”
“There is definitely an upper limit on how fast you can stich by hand, so to see people so severely underprice their work it makes me wonder.”
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