Word: stitch Part of Speech: noun 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). Pronunciation: /stɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. Labels: countable 2. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches. 3. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: cross stitch Example: herringbone stitch 4. An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest. Example: After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch. 5. A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a stitch in the side Example: He was the next day taken with an oppreſſion, and as it ſeemed with a cold and with ſtitches, which was indeed a pluriſy. 6. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn Labels: countable, uncountable Example: drop a stitch Example: take up a stitch 7. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Any space passed over; distance. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: [Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down. 11. Any least part of a fabric or clothing. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: to wet every stitch of clothes Example: She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on. 12. An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said. Example: One answer that appeared in multiple comments and stitches was that women often think about the possibility of being victims of violence. 13. A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: 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; 14. A contortion, or twist. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry.