noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a kind of stitch that is passed from the left needle to the right needle without being knitted
2. 2
   a stitch used to connect different parts of a work, achieved by pulling the thread through two non-adjacent loops

Etymology

From slip + stitch.

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