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n. The act of sewing raw edges of material with long, overlying stitches to prevent raveling.

n. The stitching so done.

n. The stitch used to overcast.

v. Present participle of overcast.

n. A bookbinders' method of oversewing, in hemstitch style, the edges of a section of single leaves. It is done to give the section the pliability of folded double leaves.

n. In sewing, oversewing two edges of a fabric by whipping them together.

n. a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling

"And the things that sergers can do well, such as overcasting raw edges, making blind hems, rolled, hems, and the like, a standard sewing machine can usually do, although it may take a bit more fiddling."

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overcasting    overcasts   

sew    stitch    run up    sew together    semidarkness    whipping    whipstitch    whipstitching    cast    casting   

overcast stitch   

darken    cloudy   

drizzle    rainy    murk    sleet    fog    wintry    smog    pall    sunless    cloudless