▪ I. seamed, ppl. a.1
(siːmd)
[f. seam v.2 + -ed1.]
In the senses of the verb.
| 1656 L. Thetford Markham's Perf. Horseman 122 A rough, grosse seamed Hoof, shewes an age or over-heating. 1864 Whittier Poems, What the Birds said 25 O'er dusky faces, seamed and old..We saw your star-dropt flag uncoil. 1871 L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. iv. (1894) 101 The seamed and distorted rocks. 1885 Misses Brietzcke & Rooper Needlewk. & Knitting ii. 99 Purl knitting is also called seamed knitting. |
▪ II. ˈseamed, ppl. a.2 rare—0.
[? erron. inferred from enseamed: see enseam v.1 1.]
(See quot.)
| 1864 Chamb. Encycl. s.v. Falconry, When in good condition, she [a hawk] is enseamed; when out of condition, seamed. Hence in later Dicts. |