Dews vs Sews - What's the difference?
dews | sews |
(archaic, or, poetic)
* {{quote-magazine, year=1837
, author=Colonel Sykes
, coauthors=
, title=The British Assocation. Seventh Meeting: Liverpool
, date=7 January 1837
, volume=
, issue=1042
, page=606
, magazine=The Literary gazette and journal of the belles lettres, arts, sciences, &c
, publisher=W.A. Scripps
, issn=
* {{quote-book, year=1844
, year_published=2009
, author=Charles Augustus Murray
, title=The Prarie-Bird
, volume=3
(sew)
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
To enclose by sewing.
As a noun dews
is plural of dew.As a verb sews is
third-person singular of sew.dews
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=This is followed by a deluge of rain for an hour or two. Dews are very copious,– fogs little known. The climate is very salubrious.}}
citation, isbn=9781113872135 , page=10 , passage=“The trail is fresh,” continued the chief; “not more than two dews have fallen on the prints of foot and hoof”}}
Usage notes
Although a countable sense of (dew) is still used, the plural form is no longer in common usage.Anagrams
*sews
English
Verb
(head)sew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sewen, seowen, sowen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Balls were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay.
- to sew money into a bag
