Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stitch, made by some sewing-machines, in which two threads are so locked at each stitch that the work will not ravel.
- Produced by means of this stitch, as a seam.
- Producing this stitch, as a sewing-machine.
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Examples
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Learn to make simple classical binding with hard cover using the lock-stitch technique on May 16, 23 and 30 from 9am-12noon with Loreto Apilado of the Cottage Industry Technology Center.
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The actual speeds of the lock-stitch machines shown here upon the power stand average 1,300; those of the chain stitch machines vary from 1,200 for the sack sewing machine to
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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The average speed upon such work is 1,200 stitches per minute; but many lock-stitch machines are run at 1,500 and 1,800 per minute, and even at much higher rates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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I seen the heaviest and hardest kind of navy boots stitched at 1,500 to the minute upon Singer's lock-stitch machines.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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There can be no doubt that lock-stitch machines can be run as high as 3,000.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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His first efforts were failures, but all at once the idea of the lock-stitch came to him.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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Walter Hunt had discovered the principle of the lock-stitch and had built a machine but had wearied of his work and abandoned his invention, just as success was in sight.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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Finally, you overcast the single clusters, and connect every two with a lock-stitch, as shown in the accompanying illustration.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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New York city, named Hunt, made and sold the first lock-stitch sewing machine ever seen in the world; that pens and horseshoes were made by machine; that the reaping machine was given its first public trial (in
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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