From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsewing machineˈsewing maˌchine noun [countable] DLHa machine for stitching cloth or clothes together
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sewing machine• He had just bought a sewing machine in Warsaw and he intended to open his own shop in their small town.• With a sewing machine and polyester thread to match the garment, set two rows of straight stitches by the tacking stitches.• A sewing machine has only one bobbin.• We never close the branch-line of the heart, its sad little, slow little sewing machine.• Take the case of the Singer sewing machine.• Then the announcement that she had bought a used sewing machine. 