hemming

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪŋ

hemming

1. present participle and gerund of hem

hemming (plural hemmings)

1. The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
   • 1847, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 285:

     Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]

• IPA^(key): /ˈxem.minɡ/, [ˈhem.miŋɡ]

hemming m

1. a boot made of raw hide

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hemming”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.