Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clamp used by women to hold fabrics in position for stitching by hand.
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Examples
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When you was just five years old you cried for goods and needle and I pinned the patches on the little sewing-bird that belonged to Granny Metz still and screwed the bird on the table and you sewed that nice!
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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a sewing-bird, or any little trifle like notepaper or a clotheshamper, help yourself! '
The Gold of Chickaree Susan Warner 1852
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