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hemmed, ppl. a.|hɛmd|
[f. hem v.1 + -ed.]
Furnished with a hem or border; sewed with a hem. hemmed in: shut in, confined, imprisoned.
c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 311 With thare hemmyd shoyn, Alle this must be done. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 339 The young Men..wore a hemm'd Gown. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xii, I ken him by his hemmed cravat. 1894Westm. Gaz. 27 June 7/1 With a mere hemmed-in Sierra Leone (and Egypt) to represent its once wide dominions. |