backstitched

• past participle

  past participle

  A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.

  of backstitch.
  backstitch

  noun

  stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
• past tense form

  past tense

  Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.

  of backstitch.
  backstitch

  noun

  stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.

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backstitched

Rhoda Hanlan the Masseuse was ostentatiously sewed with double thread and backstitched at that.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

They made awful close stitches and backstitched every now and then to make it hold.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by Work Projects Administration

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