sewing machine

noun

1. any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.

sewing machine

noun

1. any machine designed to sew material. It is now usually driven by electric motor but is sometimes operated by a foot treadle or by hand

Word History and Origins

Origin of sewing machine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

The post How to make face masks for kids and adults—no sewing machine required appeared first on Popular Science.

From Popular-Science

Whether it’s for you or the little ones in your home, you can easily make your own face masks—no sewing machines needed.

From Popular-Science

They walked me in and laid me down, face first, on what I’m pretty sure was just a massage table, and fed me into a surgical robot that looked like a giant sewing machine.

From MIT Technology Review

Some 31,000 men paid a membership fee to join Lowry’s Church of Love and provided monetary Love Offerings to the nonexistent angels for their nonexistent needs — garden seeds, winter coats, car repairs and sewing machines.

From Washington Post

Two years ago, my mom bought me a sewing machine for my birthday, but before that day my son asked me to use it, I had only turned it on twice.

From Washington Post

His best-loved character was “as beautiful as the fortuitous encounter on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.”

From The Daily Beast

The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.

From Project Gutenberg

Tip wore leaky boots all last winter, but when spring came he bought Mrs. Pulsifer a sewing machine.

From Project Gutenberg

She went up in the mornings to Madame Lebrun's room, braving the clatter of the old sewing-machine.

From Project Gutenberg

He was unaware at the time of Elias Howe's sewing machine invention of 1846.

From Project Gutenberg

Her mother sat at a sewing-machine intent upon some work, the needle eating up a spreading piece of cloth.

From Project Gutenberg