stitch

1. (countable and uncountable) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.Examples: "I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest."; "After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch."countableuncountable

2. (by extension) Any space passed over; distance.Examples: "[Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down."broadly

3. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.Examples: "If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry."obsolete

4. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.Examples: "to wet every stitch of clothes"; "She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on."; ""Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]"colloquial

5. (obsolete) A furrow.Examples: "Now plow down your Weat-stitches, by running the Two-wheel Fallow-Plough three or four times through each Stitch, which will almost level the Ground;"; "About DUNSTABLE they plow much in Stitches : and in Essex some very good Farmers practise this Method with very great Success; making five Stitches when they come to sow, which five make a Perch, so that between every two Stitches there is a Thorough a Foot wide."; "[…]for your oxen choose Two males of nine years old, for then their use Is most available, since their strengths are then Not of the weakest, and the youthful mean Sticks in their nerves still; nor will these contend With skittish tricks, when they their stitch should end, To break their plough, and leave their work undone."obsolete

6. (TikTok) An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.Examples: "More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said."; "One answer that appeared in multiple comments and stitches was that women often think about the possibility of being victims of violence."; "The stitches, as they are called on TikTok, nearly always end in agreement that Ms. Vidal was right — store-bought pesto is indeed an inferior product."