STICH, noun [Gr.] 1. In poetry, a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. STICH is used in numbering the books of Scripture. 2. In rural affairs, an order or rank of trees. [In New England, as much land as lies between double furrows, is called a stitch, or a land.]
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