A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
A line of junction; a joint.
A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
A suture.
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
To put together with a seam.
To crack open along a seam.
Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
The threads in a woven fabric, composed of the warp (threads running lengthwise) and woof (threads running crosswise) to create the texture of the fabric.
The fundamental structure of any process or system.