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.
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.
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
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.