lock stitch's Usage Examples:

The "Serpentine" machines formed a lock stitch using a reciprocating (i.

sheets are combined into small units or signatures, which are secured with overlock stitching.

punched in the signature"s gutter margin (nearest the spine), forming overlock stitches that attach it to previously attached sections.

It formed a lock stitch by means of a curved needle on a vibrating arm above the cloth plate.

together with an overlock stitch using a serger.

His first machine formed a lock stitch by means of a curved needle on a vibrating arm above the cloth plate.

Whereas the schiffli machine used a lock stitch, the same technique used by the sewing machine.

is then threaded through the loops of successive stitches creating a lock stitch.

Sewing awls are used to make lock stitches.

Overlock stitching was invented by the Merrow Machine Company in 1881.

eye at the point, a shuttle operating beneath the cloth to form the lock stitch, and an automatic feed.

Overlock machines with five or more threads usually make both a chainstitch with one needle and one looper, and an overlock stitch.

It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against.

Synonyms:

baste, cast on, hemstitch, fell, secure, cast off, resew, fasten, sew, gather, sew together, backstitch, retick, fix, tick, tack, tuck, pucker, finedraw, conjoin, join, overcast, hem, run up,

Antonyms:

cast on, disjoin, unfasten, cast off, unbuckle,