Meaning

Dated form of sewing machine..

Example Sentences

The peculiarity of this invention consists in a means for varying the angle at which the plaiting-blade is held in the plaiter without varying the position of the entire instrument upon the sewing-machine.

The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.

You are made fully aware of it before you have travelled the length of a single block in any of these East Side streets, by the whir of a thousand sewing-machines, worked at high pressure from earliest dawn till mind and muscle give out together.

In this she was only like millions of other Ordinary Women who are toiling over cooking-stoves, slaving at sewing-machines, pinching and economizing to educate and cultivate their children—digging with their own hands the chasm that will separate them almost as much as death.

“. . . Beautiful like the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella” (Lautréamont).

This face-saving reminds us of some American ripostes a few months back when their space rockets seemed disinclined to leave the earth very far behind; after all, they said, the Russians are only chucking heavy machinery at the moon, whereas we're trying to be more sophisticated and get a sewing-machine up there.

The solid table on which stood the sewing-machine was also useful for cutting out and dressmaking, and the ironing-board and the iron stood ready for instant use.

Word Forms

• sewing-machines

When Should You Use Sewing-machine?

Use sewing-machine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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