(n.) A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
(n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Ed Milliband himself went to a comprehensive, when he sacked the comprehensive-educated Diane Abbott from the front bench he replaced her with an old girl of Haberdashers' Aske's.
(2) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(3) The CV Born February 14 1945 in London Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, BA Econ at Christ's College, Cambridge, MBA from Harvard University Career 1970-74 Worked for Mark McCormack, founder of talent agency IMG 1975-77 Personal financial adviser to food entrepreneur James Gulliver 1977-1985 Saatchi & Saatchi group, finance director 1985 Takes stake in Wire and Plastic Products, wire baskets maker, to build a marketing services company 1986-present Chief executive of WPP 1999 Knighted Family Married for second time in April.
(4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
(5) And to those who want to get in the way, I have just two words: hands off," he said in a speech at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, an academy in south-east London.
(6) Last year, his mother asked that he be withdrawn from rugby at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, but she was told her son couldn’t “pick and choose” his lessons and he left the school.
(7) You can transform any polygon to any other polygon of equal area through a Haberdasher's Puzzle-style hinged dissection.
(8) When the Halawis, a family of Syrian haberdashers, wanted to get from Greece to Macedonia on Wednesday, they took a direct coach from Athens to the last hotel before the border.
(9) The son of an electronics retailer who attended the private Haberdashers' Aske's school in north London, and Christ's College, Cambridge, Sorrell is a former finance director of Saatchi & Saatchi and counts the historian Simon Schama among his friends.
(10) I asked about the Haberdasher's Puzzle and the applause he received.
(11) She explains to the room her vision for a haberdasher's that also offers bespoke outfits and sewing lessons.
(12) Lucas was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, which charges parents around £10,000 a year; David Walliams went to Reigate Grammar, which rates itself as "one of the top independent co-educational day schools in the country".
(13) I had the choice of outstanding schools, such as Merchant Taylors' and Haberdashers' near my home in London.
Sewing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sew
(n.) The act or occupation of one who sews.
(n.) That which is sewed with the needle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The affinity of human C1q subcomponent for IgM of normal human serum and Waldenström macroglobulins of patients Sew and Zuk were investigated by the polyethylene glycol 6,000 immune complexes precipitation test.
(2) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
(3) The device can be used to locate a hypodermic needle at a distance of 50-90 mm, a sewing needle at 60-122 mm, a routine 7.62-mm bullet at 90 mm and a 5.6-mm bullet at 105 mm.
(4) The narrow lower part is sewed to the nasal mucous membrane with 3 atraumatic catgut sutures.
(5) The authors describe a simple Seldinger Catheter technique by which they removed a metallic sewing needle with attached thread from the esophagus of a 5 month old infant.
(6) Golby was raised in Hinckley, Leicestershire; his mother sewed knickers and his father worked in a factory, and there remains a matter-of-fact quality about him.
(7) A sewing needle, which penetrated the region of the wrist joint anteriorly, unknown to the patient, also penetrated the median nerve without causing any initial discomfort or neurological deficit.
(8) Angiography demonstrated the presence of an intra-aortic metallic foreign body that resembled a sewing needle.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
(11) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
(12) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(13) Three new cases of intracranial sewing needles are reported and are reviewed with 10 other published cases.
(14) First they sewed together their own Palestinian flags and hung them from trees near their school at a time when it was illegal to fly the flag.
(15) This paper was presented at the ICN SEW Resource Group meeting in Geneva.
(16) She learned to sew, and was also taught about personal health and hygiene.
(17) My brigade in the sewing shop works 16 to 17 hours a day.
(18) Jenny Rushmore, who blogs under Cashmerette , regularly shares her sewing plans and projects on her Instagram page – including her plans to make a swimsuit.
(19) BBC2's attempt to repeat the success of The Great British Bake Off – but with sewing – made a strong start with an average of 2.6 million viewers for The Great British Sewing Bee on Tuesday night.
(20) This technique was compared to transabdominal end-to-end anastomosis performed as low as possible, using the circular stapler and hand-sewing with a one-layer technique.