Usually means: Surrounded, enclosed, or stitched edges.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hemmed: Merriam-Webster
  2. hemmed, hemmed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hemmed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hemmed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hemmed, hemmed: Wordnik
  6. hemmed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hemmed: Wiktionary
  8. Hemmed, hemmed: Dictionary.com
  9. hemmed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Hemmed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Hemmed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hemmed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hemmed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hemmed: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hemmed: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hem)

noun:  An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
verb:  To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
noun:  (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
noun:  A rim or margin of something.
noun:  In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
verb:  (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
verb:  (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
verb:  (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
noun:  A surname.
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