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seam
  1. (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.Wp
  2. A suture.
  3. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
  4. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
  5. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
  6. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
  7. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
  8. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
  9. (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Donna tried, through the fabric of her jacket, to keep the unraveling side seam of her skirt together.”
      “Do you think that dreadful man with the seam on his face will spy on us?”
      “There was a coal seam on his property, a V-shaped trench behind the old homesite where the farm family had dug out chunks for home use.”
seamer
  1. A person who sews seams.
  2. Part of a sewing machine that creates seams.
  3. (cricket) A bowler skilled at making the ball seam.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Nash's last ball was a deliberate seamer, but he made the blunder of digging it in too short.”
      “He was a left arm seamer and opening batsmen who played two first class matches.”
      “During a club match we didn't have a seamer, and I opted to bowl seamers and ended up taking seven wickets in the game.”
seaming
  1. The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
  2. (fishing) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
  3. Synonyms:
seamline
  1. A line formed by the seam of a garment.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Always test for stiffness or discoloration by dabbing sealant on a fabric swatch or a seamline before applying it to your project.”
seamstressy
  1. (archaic) The business of a seamstress.
seam
  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Donna tried, through the fabric of her jacket, to keep the unraveling side seam of her skirt together.”
      “Do you think that dreadful man with the seam on his face will spy on us?”
      “There was a coal seam on his property, a V-shaped trench behind the old homesite where the farm family had dug out chunks for home use.”
seamstressing
  1. The trade practiced by seamstresses.
seaminess
  1. The state or condition of being seamy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The poet stitches his epic out of speech's defects, not its seemlinesses or even its seaminess.”
      “Generally speaking, though, the seaminess of truck stops is in inverse proportion to their distance from major cities.”
      “Blatter isn't on the list of those accused, and, in the past, he has managed to rise above the seaminess enveloping his organization.”
seamstress
  1. A woman who sews clothes professionally.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Yet the servants insisted the seamstress and cobbler had made them with me in mind.”
      “She needed to strike the cobra and pin it as a seamstress would hold a hem.”
      “The ship's seamstress did the fitting, and the garment came out beautifully.”
seamstresses
  1. plural of seamstress
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog over a river.”
      “Especially numerous as seamstresses in the needle trades and in domestic work, women were also essential to the emerging factories.”
      “Then, for one night, the seamstresses turn into princesses for a unique beauty pageant.”
seamlines
  1. plural of seamline
  2. Examples:
    1. “Remove the pattern pieces and staystitch the waistline and any curved seamlines.”
      “Stabilize the centerfront edges with fusible stay tape on the fabric wrong side. Also fuse the tape over the shoulder and armhole seamlines.”
      “Beginning in the quilt center, machine stitch in the ditch along all vertical seamlines.”
seamings
seamers
  1. plural of seamer
  2. Examples:
    1. “We picked three seamers because the wicket did assist swing bowling and there are lights here.”
      “During a club match we didn't have a seamer, and I opted to bowl seamers and ended up taking seven wickets in the game.”
      “However, there is enough help for the seamers to persuade both teams to play three frontline quicks.”
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