lock stitch

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Lock stitch \Lock" stitch`\n. A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. [1913 Webster]

Stitch \Stitch\, n. [OE. stiche, AS. stice a pricking, akin to stician to prick. See Stick, v. i.]

1.A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. [1913 Webster]

2.A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch. [1913 Webster]

3.[Cf. OE. sticche, stecche, stucche, a piece, AS. stycce. Cf. Stock.] A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. [1913 Webster]

You have gone a good stitch.— Bunyan.[1913 Webster]

In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.— Holland.[1913 Webster]

4.A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side. [1913 Webster]

He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.— Bp. Burnet.[1913 Webster]

5.A contortion, or twist. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry.— Marston.[1913 Webster]

6.Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

7.A furrow. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]

8.An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary.

Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2. [1913 Webster]