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SEWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fastened with stitches
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
seamed (having or joined by a seam or seams)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb sew
Context examples:
Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four double: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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