lock stitch's Usage Examples:

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

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

attachment can create buttonholes from any sewing machine capable of making a lock stitch.

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

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

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

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

  The (bobbin) shuttle, or schiffli machine adapted the lock stitch from the sewing machine.

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

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;