"stitch aloft" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stitches aloft",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitching aloft",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitched aloft",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitched aloft",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stitch aloft (third-person singular simple present stitches aloft, present participle stitching aloft, simple past and past participle stitched aloft)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, “The Shoe Factory”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 22",
          "text": "To \"stitch aloft\" is the best way on welts, too, for the same reasons stated above.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, William Henry Dooley, A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products, page 134",
          "text": "Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, American Shoemaking, volume 51, page 316",
          "text": "But, in stitching aloft, the groove in the sole should be deep enough to protect the thread from the buffing operation, provided that the lock cannot be reached; the nearer to the top, the better for the wear of the seam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sew (something, usually a shoe) such that the stitches are visible instead of covered."
      ],
      "id": "en-stitch_aloft-en-verb-tXAullB-",
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          "sew",
          "sew"
        ],
        [
          "stitch",
          "stitch"
        ],
        [
          "visible",
          "visible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sew (something, usually a shoe) such that the stitches are visible instead of covered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stitch aloft"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stitches aloft",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitching aloft",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitched aloft",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stitched aloft",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, “The Shoe Factory”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 22",
          "text": "To \"stitch aloft\" is the best way on welts, too, for the same reasons stated above.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, William Henry Dooley, A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products, page 134",
          "text": "Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, American Shoemaking, volume 51, page 316",
          "text": "But, in stitching aloft, the groove in the sole should be deep enough to protect the thread from the buffing operation, provided that the lock cannot be reached; the nearer to the top, the better for the wear of the seam.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sew (something, usually a shoe) such that the stitches are visible instead of covered."
      ],
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        [
          "sew",
          "sew"
        ],
        [
          "stitch",
          "stitch"
        ],
        [
          "visible",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sew (something, usually a shoe) such that the stitches are visible instead of covered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stitch aloft"
}