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Seaming   Listen
noun
Seaming  n.  
1.
The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
2.
(Fishing) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.






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"Seaming" Quotes from Famous Books



... behind me; but I don't think I was conscious of the passage of time. God knows how long I stood there. Now and then I saw Polehampton's face before my eyes, with the panic-stricken eyes, the ruffled hair, the lines of tears seaming the cheeks, seeming to look out at me from the crumple of the paper that I held. I knew too, that there were faces like that everywhere; everywhere, faces of panic-stricken little people of no more account than the dead in graveyards, just the material to make graveyards, nothing more; little ...
— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... are nearly perfect, art and nature seaming to strive to out-do one another. Well-kept lawns are figured by flower-beds of all shapes and sizes; the rosery is very large; the great variety of evergreens imparts every hue and shade to the extensive ...
— Hertfordshire • Herbert W Tompkins

... pier. Once, in a historic rat-catching, a rat had got up one of them, and a piece of smouldering brown paper had done what a terrier could not do. The machine at one period of its career had been enlarged, and the neat seaming of the metal was an ecstasy to the eye of a good workman. Long ago, it was known, this machine had printed a Reform newspaper at Stockport. Now, after thus participating in the violent politics of an age heroic and unhappy, it had been put ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett



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