Reverse Dictionary: SEW

ADJECTIVES
► CAT-CLAWED poorly sewn → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CAT-STITCHED poorly sewn → 1967 Amer. dial.
► JAKEY sewn carelessly → 1968 Amer. dial.
► WISHED TOGETHER put together insecurely, cobbled up; sewn carelessly → 1918 Amer. dial.
► WITCHED TOGETHER put together insecurely, cobbled up; sewn carelessly → 1929 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► FLAP-AND-TRAP OUTING a group of women that meet to sew together → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HOUSEWIFE an elementary sewing kit; a bag or pocket for sewing materials → 1968 UK sl.
► NEEDLEDOM the ‘world’ of sewing → 1847
► PUCKERSNATCH hasty and poor sewing, often all bunched up → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCOBERIE ► SCOBRIE the act of sewing carelessly or with long stitches → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► LITTLE WOMAN ROUND THE CORNER ► MY LITTLE WOMAN ROUND THE CORNER one’s dressmaker or sewing-woman → 20C middle-class colloq.
► TRODDLER a ‘tredaller’; one who works a sewing-machine → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BESEW to sew up → a800 obs.
► BESS to sew slackly; to baste → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BORE to sew → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUILD to sew or tailor; to make clothing → 1951 Amer. dial.
► BUILD CLOTHES to make clothes → 1877 Amer. dial.
► BUSHEL to repair garments → 1889 US
► GABBLE to do something clumsily; to make a poor job of something, esp. of sewing or knitting → 1953 Sc. 
► GADGE to baste; to run or tack together with long stitches → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PELT to sew thickly → 1860 tailors’ sl.
► PICK OUT ROBINS’ EYES to side-stitch black cloth or any delicate material → 1860 tailor’s usage
► PRICK ON A CLOUT to sew → 1584 obs.
► RANTER 1. to sew up a rent, or apply a patch with invisible stitches; to darn, to mend → 1673-88 Eng. dial.
2. to seam up roughly, with wide stitches → 1882 Sc.
► ROPE to sew roughly in making a temporary mend → 1921 Sc.
► RUN UP WITH A HOT NEEDLE AND BURNING THREAD to sew hastily and carelessly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCOB to take long stitches in sewing, to sew loosely and clumsily; to baste → 1808 Sc.
► SET ► SET A STITCH to sew → 1857 Amer. dial.
► SEW WITH A HOT NEEDLE AND BURNING THREAD to sew hastily and carelessly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TAG to fasten, stitch, or tack together; to join → 1681 obs.
► YARK ► YERK to draw stitches tight, to twitch, as a shoemaker in sewing; also, to bind tightly with cords → c1430 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.