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"Hem" Definition
noun
A short cough or clearing of the throat made especially to gain attention, warn another, hide embarrassment, or fill a pause in speech.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
An edge or border on a piece of cloth, especially a finished edge, as for a garment or curtain, made by folding an edge under and stitching it down.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
The height or level of the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; a hemline.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down.
Source: Merriam-Webster
The edge of a piece of cloth or clothing which has been turned under and sewn:.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To hesitate in speech.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To utter a hem.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To finish with a hem.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To surround in a restrictive manner.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To make a hem in sewing.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To utter the sound represented by.
Source: Merriam-Webster
Turn under and sew the edge of (a piece of cloth):.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
interjection
Used in writing to indicate a sound made when coughing or clearing the throat to attract attention or to express hesitation.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
idiom
Hem and haw To be hesitant and indecisive; equivocate: "a leader who cannot make up his or her mind, never knows what to do, hems and haws” ( Margaret Thatcher).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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