Needlework. [Cf. prec.] trans. To sew with a whip-stitch: = WHIP v. 18.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 240. Silcke lace, cloth of golde, of siluer, and such costly stuffe, to welte, garde, whippstitch, edge, face, and draw out.
1887. R. R. Bowker, in Harper’s Mag., July, 179/2. If ‘inserts’ or ‘plates’ of single sheets are to form part of the book, these are usually pasted or ‘whip-stitched’ by hand upon or within the folded sheet before gathering.
