hemstitch noun & verb.
['hɛmstɪtʃ] M19.[from HEM noun1 + STITCH noun1.]A. noun. In
Embroidery, an ornamental stitch in drawn-work involving drawing bundles of thread together and used esp. to hem a piece of work;
gen. a stitch used to hem a garment etc. involving small widely-spaced diagonal stitches designed to be invisible from the right side.
M19.b. verb trans. Hem using this stitch.
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