Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STICH
STICH, n. [Gr. στιχος.]
- In poetry, a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. [Stich is used in numbering the books of Scripture.]
- In rural affairs, an order or rank of trees. [In New England, as much land as lies between double furrows, is called stitch, or a land.]
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