To form land into ridges. Common in New England.--Webster. The word is not new, though it does not seem to be used now in England.
Many men at plough he made, and drave earth here and there
And turn'd up stitches orderly.--Chapman, Iliad.
·noun A row, line, or rank of trees. II. Stich ·noun A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet...
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