overcasting
Americannoun
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the act of sewing along the edges of material with long, spaced stitches to prevent raveling.
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the stitch used to overcast.
Etymology
Origin of overcasting
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John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
In overcasting, as in old-fashioned whipstitching, the sewer selects a certain number of sheets for sewing.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
A cloud was by this time overcasting the moon, and a distant rumble told us that the night would be stormy.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The librarian will insist not only that nine-tenths of fiction and juvenile books must be overcast, but that a special kind of overcasting must be used.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
Diagonal lines of thread are first laid from edge to edge of the ground space, and these are sewn down by short overcasting stitches in the cross direction.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle
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