slipstitch

noun — 2 senses

slipstitch

noun

Etymology From slip + stitch.

1

Business, Knitting, Manufacturing, Textiles a kind of stitch that is passed from the left needle to the right needle without being knitted

2

a stitch used to connect different parts of a work, achieved by pulling the thread through two non-adjacent loops

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