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ˈsewing-maˌchine
[sewing vbl. n.1]
1. A machine designed to perform the operation of sewing. Freq. attrib. as sewing-machine oil.
1847Artizan Mar. 65/1 Sewing Machine. A new machine for sewing has recently been invented [etc.]. 1858Hogg Shelley II. 457, I thought very little of it [sc. Cleopatra's Needle],..after having seen the sewing-machine in London. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 411 Two pieces of waterproof cloth, sewn together by the sewing-machine.
attrib.1863in Rebellion Rec. V. i. 70 Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of the sewing-machine needle, was a private in this regiment. 1873‘Susan Coolidge’ What Katy Did at Sch. ii. 37 The nice half-dozens of pretty underclothes came home from the sewing-machine woman's. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Bobbin, A bobbin for sewing-machine shuttles. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 262/3 See Index for Sewing Machine Oil. 1977A. Scholefield Venom v. 205 He found a can of..sewing-machine oil and squirted it into the lock.
2. Bookbinding. (See quot.)
1880J. W. Zaehnsdorf Bookbinding 176 Sewing-machine, a recent invention for the sewing of books with wire instead of thread.
3. attrib.
a. Designating a musical instrument whose operation resembles the action of a sewing-machine.
b. fig. Of rhythm: precise, regular, inexpressive.
1874J. Codman Mormon Country viii. 80, I found the solitary musician seated at one of those sewing-machine ‘melodeons’, and grinding out the Missionary hymn. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 247 Bach's sewing-machine counterpoint. 1974Early Music Apr. 119/2 His purpose is to counter the ‘sewing-machine’ style of playing Bach by the ‘purists’.
Hence ˈsewing-maˌchinist.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 75 Sewing Machinist. |