chainstitch
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of chainstitch
First recorded in 1860–65; v. use of chain stitch
Example Sentences
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This chainstitch machine is believed to have been made by the company that later became the Standard Shuttle Sewing Machine Company, when they began manufacturing lockstitch machines about 1874.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
This machine made the chainstitch, using not one but many hooked needles that operated simultaneously.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
The patent covered the peculiar method of operating a spring-looper in combination with an eye-pointed needle to form a single chainstitch, but whether machines of this single-thread variety were manufactured is unknown.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
It was the most popular and the most reliable of the many chainstitch machines.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
Most of the small, simple, chainstitch sewing machines of this period were constructed so that they could either be turned by hand or set into a treadle-powered table.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
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