Definition of seam

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Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..

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Sempstressy :: Sempstressy (n.) Seamstressy.
Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen..
Meaking :: Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Suture :: Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib..
Sempster :: Sempster (n.) A seamster.
Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..
Seamy :: Seamy (a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them..
Seam :: Seam (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.
Seam :: Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
Seamanship :: Seamanship (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship..
Rhaphe :: Rhaphe (n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam..
Monk''s Seam :: Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic..
Unseam :: Unseam (v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.
Seam :: Seam (n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
Marinership :: Marinership (n.) Seamanship.
Enseam :: Enseam (v. t.) To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute.
Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
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