STITCH Stitch, n. Etym: [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.
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.
3. Etym: [Cf. OE. sticche, stecche, stucche, a piece, AS. stycce. Cf. Stock.]
Defn: A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows. Holland.
4. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side. He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy. Bp. Burnet.
5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.] If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry. Marston.
6. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.]
7. A furrow. Chapman. Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary. — Pearl, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.
STITCH
Stitch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Stitching.]