gripe vs stitch

gripe

noun
  • Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines. 

  • A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. 

  • A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. 

  • The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. 

  • The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. 

  • An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted. 

verb
  • To suffer griping pains. 

  • To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. 

  • To annoy or bother. 

  • To complain; to whine. 

stitch

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

  • Any space passed over; distance. 

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

  • A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages. 

  • A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. 

  • An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style. 

  • The space between two double furrows. 

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

  • A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle. 

  • Any least part of a fabric or clothing. 

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

verb
  • To practice/practise stitching or needlework. 

  • To include, combine, or unite into a single whole. 

  • To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches. 

  • To form land into ridges. 

  • To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds. 

  • To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image. 

  • To sew, or unite or attach by stitches. 

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