Hem

Quick meaning: Hem is an interjection meaning Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Meaning

Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

More Meanings

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
2. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
3. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
4. A rim or margin of something.
5. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
6. (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
7. (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.

Example Sentences

his morning hems

Hem, and stroke thy beard.

For eyther of hem mayntened.

Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea

Word Forms

• hems
• hemming
• hemmed

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