stitch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.

   cross stitch

2. 2
   noun

   An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.

   I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.

3. 3
   noun

   A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.

   a stitch in the side

4. 4
   noun

   A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn

   drop a stitch

5. 5
   noun

   Any space passed over; distance.

   [Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down.

6. 6
   noun

   Any least part of a fabric or clothing.

   to wet every stitch of clothes

7. 7
   noun

   An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.

   More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said.

8. 8
   noun

   A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows.

   Now plow down your Weat-stitches, by running the Two-wheel Fallow-Plough three or four times through each Stitch, which will almost level the Ground;

Etymology

From Middle English stiche, from Old English stiċe (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”). Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), German Stich (“a prick, piercing, stitch”), Old English stician (“to stick, stab, pierce, prick”). More at stick. Via PIE cognate with Czech steh, Polish ścieg, Russian стежо́к (stežók).