[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A stitch in sewing or knitting. Also in figurative contexts.

- In emphatic use: a ‘stitch’ of clothing or fabric; the smallest or least piece of clothing or fabric.


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 18th century; earliest use found in Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), poet. Either (i) from steek

[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A strike by colliers or keelmen.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century; earliest use found in Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne. Apparently reflecting a regional pronunciation of stick, perhaps reinforced by association with steek

[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Especially in Fair Isle knitting: a section of extra stitches worked at a point which will ultimately be cut open, enabling the knitter to work in the round rather than back and forth.


Phrases:

Origin:
1980s. Apparently a specific use of steek

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To shut, fasten (a door, window, gate, etc.). Also with to, † up.

- To shut up (a place); to close securely (a place or receptacle); to lock up. Also with up.

- To shut, close (one's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.), especially so as not to speak, see, or hear, something unwelcome.

- Especially of a door: to close, shut.


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in an earlier sense). Probably an extended use of steek (although this is first attested later), but the semantic development is not entirely clear

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To stab or pierce (a person or animal) with a spear, sword, knife, or other weapon; to kill by stabbing. Also of an animal: to butt or gore with its horn or horns. Also figurative.

- With adverb or prepositional phrase: to put (something) in a specified place or position; to fasten or stick in position.

- To be unable to progress; to be brought to a standstill; to become stuck; (of a boat) to become grounded. Also in figurative contexts in phrases such as "to steek in the briers", "to steek in the clay", etc.: †to be in difficulties or trouble (obsolete).


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English; earliest use found in Layamon (fl. 1250), poet. Cognate with Old Frisian steka (West Frisian stekke), Middle Dutch steken (Dutch steken), Old Saxon stekan (Middle Low German steken), Old High German stehhan (Middle High German, German stechen) from a variant (perhaps with a-mutation or an irregular ablaut development) of the Germanic base of stick

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To sew, to stitch; to embroider.

- To sew.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century. Either (i) the reflex of an otherwise unattested northern variant of stitch

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To knit (an item, or part of an item) with a steek in order to enable it to be worked in the round, rather than back and forth.

- To cut and finish the steek of (a knitted item), typically so as to create the front opening of a cardigan, an armhole, etc.


Phrases:

Origin:
1980s. Probably from steek