Tailoring. [Of obscure origin.] trans. To sew with a particular kind of invisible stitch, which passes only half-way through the cloth. Hence Stoated, Stoating ppl. adjs.; Stoating vbl. sb.
1888. 1st Rep. Sel. Comm. Sweating Syst., 1029. Tailors’ Log. Stoated and double pricked edges 3s 0d.
1888. Daily News, 21 Sept., 4/7. Enduring fierce rebuke from ‘the boss’ for a shoulder awkwardly wadded, or a badly ‘stoated’ edge.
1901. Hasluck, Tailoring, 21. There are three kinds of absolutely invisible stitches which are used to repair tears…. These are stoating, fine-drawing, and rentering. Ibid. The tear to be stoated must have firm edges; it is impossible to stoat ravelled edges such as most serges have.
