Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A three-ply twisted yarn suitably finished for use in sewing.
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Examples
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She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-thread.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-thread.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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(God bless us!) no thicker than a sewing-thread; that, to be sure, they must deal with the devil! —
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And they use power-leads the size of sewing-thread!
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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On October 21, 1879, after many patient trials, he carbonized a piece of cotton sewing-thread bent into a loop or horseshoe form, and had it sealed into a glass globe from which he exhausted the air until a vacuum up to one-millionth of an atmosphere was produced.
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Thorpe learned the Indian tan; of what use are the hollow shank bones; how the spinal cord is the toughest, softest, and most pliable sewing-thread known.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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Thorpe learned the Indian tan; of what use are the hollow shank bones; how the spinal cord is the toughest, softest, and most pliable sewing-thread known.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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Thread should also be unbleached, as the unnecessary bleaching of most bookbinder's sewing-thread seems to cause it to rot in a comparatively short time.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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Yet valueless as the new acquisition was, on second thoughts he considered that it would be worth while to make good the statement in his late note to Graye -- that he had sent everything the box contained except the sewing-thread.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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The common nettle, remarks Mr. Lawson, who ranks it with flax, hemp, cotton, phormium, and other fibre-yielding economical plants, has been long known as affording a large proportion of fibre, which has not only been made into ropes and cordage, but also into sewing-thread and beautiful white linen-like cloth of superior quality.
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