thoroughstitch
See also: thorough-stitch
English
Adverb
thoroughstitch (comparative more thoroughstitch, superlative most thoroughstitch)
- (obsolete) So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely.
- L'Estrange
- Perseverance alone can carry us thoroughstitch.
- L'Estrange
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thoroughstitch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)