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A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

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  1. n. A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
  2. n. Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition.
  3. n. The act or process of whipstitching.
  4. v. t. To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.
  5. n. a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
  6. 1. A tailor; -- so called in contempt. 2. Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition. [R.] Dryden. 3. (Agric.) The act or process of whipstitching. To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land. [Eng.]
  7. n. a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally