finedraw

English

Etymology

fine + draw

Verb

finedraw (third-person singular simple present finedraws, present participle finedrawing, simple past finedrew, past participle finedrawn)

  1. (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for finedraw in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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