Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STITCH, n.

1. A single pass of a needle in sewing.
2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link of yarn; as, to let down a stitch; to take up a stitch.
3. A land; the space between two double furrows in plowed ground.
4. A local sharp pain; an acute lancinating pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.