1. seam - Noun
2. seam - Verb
Grease; tallow; lard.
The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
To become ridgy; to crack open.
A denomination of weight or measure.
The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit. Emily Dickinson
This is continuity, you travel, perhaps in your mind, a paper world real, God reeling up and down landscapes and buildings, knocks down, opens new roads, doesn't like it, changes again, but there isn't a seam, His world is onefold, and you perceive neither seam nor contradiction, continuity only. Dimitris Lyacos
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. Jodi Picoult
You don't know very much about women, do you?" she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam. William Faulkner
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light. David Almond
Crotch seam rivet in original Levi's dropped due to pain from standing near fires. American Proverb