Did you not know that when they were lent to Central India over a Canal Scheme, some Rajah or other gave her a sewing machine in solid gold so that the water should run through his state.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— the act, method, or occupation of one that sews
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Macmillan
— work that you do with cloth using a needle and thread or a sewing machine, especially making or repairing something
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Collins
— Sewing is the activity of making or mending clothes or other things using a needle and thread.
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1 use of ‘sewing’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster