sewin

British  

/ ˈsjʊən /

noun

1. (in Wales and Ireland) another name for sea trout

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Etymology

Origin of sewin

C16: origin unknown

Example Sentences

Another campaigner, Simon Walters, said the spills would affect sewin and salmon movements.

From BBC

It was too far from civilization for the undertaker or the sewin'-circle to get at me.

From Project Gutenberg

He was sandpaperin' the polish off a mahogany sewin' table; the kind Mrs. Burke Smythe called a "find," and had in her best front parlor as an example of what our great-granddads used to make, and we wa'n't capable of in these cheap and shoddy days.

From Project Gutenberg

But the parson he come, to keep the spiritual part of me ready for whatever might happen; and the undertaker, to be sure he got the other part, if it did happen; and twenty-odd old maids and widows from sewin'-circle to talk about each other and church squabbles and the dreadful sufferin's and agonizin' deaths of their relations, who'd had accidents similar to mine.

From Project Gutenberg

Oh! there we have quiltings, skutchings, and sewin frolics, and makin apple butter, and all such like; and they always wind up at the little end with a rip-sneezin dance, and that's where we do the sparkin; well, presently a weddin grows out of it, and maybe then there isn't a little fun agoing, dance all night, and play all sort of games, at least all them sort that wind up in kissin the gals, and that they manage to bring about by sellin pawns, and one thing or other.

From Project Gutenberg