▪ I. † ˈseaming, n. Obs.
A variety of apple.
| 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort., Aug. 72 The Seaming Apple. |
▪ II. seaming, vbl. n. (
ˈsiːmɪŋ)
[f. seam v.2 + -ing1.] a. The action of
seam v.
2; also
concr., a seam or seams.
| c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3205 Hire sons cote inconsutyle with out semyng. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. L ij b, Questyons vpon the Anathomy of seamynge or stytchynge. 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 47 Let them [i.e. your daughters] learne plaine workes of all kind, so they take heed of too open seaming. 1795 Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 365 A kind of seaming, well known to those who make iron funnels for stoves. 1880 Plain Hints 55 For those who are called upon to do seaming and felling, these [pieces of calico] will be divided, so as to form two pieces. 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Seaming, the marginal line which surrounds a seine, and to which the meshes are seized. |
b. attrib. and
Comb., as
seaming bar,
seaming machine,
seaming mallet,
seaming stitch,
seaming twine;
seaming lace, lace used for insertion in or for covering and ornamenting seams;
seaming plough, one for drawing seed-drills.
| 1795 *Seaming bar [see seam v.2 3]. |
| 1616 B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. v. 9 That weares such petticoates, and lace to her smocks, Broad *seaming laces (as I see 'hem hang there). 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Seaming-lace, a coach-maker's lace, used to cover seams and edges. 1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace 300 note, ‘Seaming’ lace and spacing lace appear to have been generally used at this period [Jas. I] to unite the breadths of linen, instead of a seam sewed. We find them employed for cupboard cloths,..shirts, &c. through⁓out the accounts of King James and Prince Charles. |
| 1847 Rep. Comm. Patents 1846 (U.S.) 214 My improved *seaming machine for turning down and forming a seam of the flange surrounding the bottoms of the buckets. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Seaming-machine, a machine for forming the joints at the edges of sheet-metal plates. 1884 Ibid. Suppl., Seaming Machine. The Royer & Lincoln seamer..trims woven goods neatly and evenly; and joins the margin of cloth outside the seam. |
| 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 193 So much of the Sheet as lies over the Cavity is set down into it with the *Seaming-mallet. |
| 1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 16 There may be a *seaming plough pass over the land,..to draw the drills; the seed may then be cast thinly. |
| 1880 Plain Hints 16 The shape of the *seaming⁓stitch is quite different to hemming. |
| 1794 Rigging & Seamanship I. 92 The seams..are..stitched up..with double *seaming twine. |