The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
A rim or margin of something.
An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
To make a hem.
To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.