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stitchery

noun

Etymology

From stitch + -ery.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to stab, pierce”
  2. inherited from *stikiz✻ — “prick, piercing, stitch”
  3. inherited from *stiki✻
  4. inherited from stiċe — “a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”
  5. inherited from stiche
  6. suffixed as stitchery — “stitch + ery”

Definitions

  1. fine work done by stitching

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stitchery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA