whipstitch

See also: whip stitch

English edit

Etymology edit

Noun edit

whipstitch (plural whipstitches)

A stitch that passes diagonally over an edge.
(derogatory, archaic) A tailor.
Anything hastily put or stitched together; a hasty composition.
- c. 1678, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
  Where sold he bargains, "whip-stitch, kiss my arse", / Promised a play and dwindled to a farce?
(colloquial) A little bit, especially a small interval of time; an instant.
(agriculture) Half-ploughing or raftering.

Verb edit

whipstitch (third-person singular simple present whipstitches, present participle whipstitching, simple past and past participle whipstitched)

To sew using such a stitch.
(agriculture) To half-plough or rafter.