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noun

Seaming n.

The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

(Fishing) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

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Etymology of 'Seaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... were of gypsum or limestone, the wall of pise, materials which are not to be easily combined. The Assyrians contented themselves with simply placing the one against the other. No trace of any tie is to be found. A "tooth" has been given to the inner faces of the slabs by seaming them in every direction with the chisel, and, perhaps, some plastic substance may at the last moment have been introduced between them and the soft clay, but no trace of any other contrivance for keeping the two materials together has been found. ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

... always plenty of sewing on hand; but I had not been taught to cut out a single garment, and except plain hemming and seaming, there was little I could do, even in that line; for they both asserted that it was far easier to do the work themselves than to prepare it for me: and besides, they liked better to see me prosecuting my studies, or amusing myself—it was time enough for me to sit ...

— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... 3 needles. Begin by seaming the first stitch, knit the second, and slip it on the left-hand needle, bring the 1 from behind over, which decreases a stitch; knit the 3 next stitches plain, pass the thread in front of each of the 2 next stitches and knit them, which increases and makes ...

— Exercises in Knitting • Cornelia Mee

... of seaming, hemming, darning, and either knitting or crocheting, and press out a Scout uniform, ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts