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Substantiivit

1. (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.Wp
2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
3. A suture.
4. A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
5. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
6. An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
7. An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
8. (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
9. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
10. (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.

Verbit

1. To put together with a seam.
2. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
3. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
4. To crack open along a seam.
5. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
6. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.