Usually means: Embroidery technique using laid threads.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. couching: Merriam-Webster
  2. couching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. couching: Collins English Dictionary
  4. couching: Vocabulary.com
  5. Couching, couching: Wordnik
  6. couching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. couching: Wiktionary
  8. couching: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Couching, couching: Dictionary.com
  10. couching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Couching (embroidery), Couching (ophthalmology), Couching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Couching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. couching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Couching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. couching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. couching: FreeDictionary.org
  17. couching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. couching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. couching: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. couching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couching: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couching: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Popular Cross Stitch Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (couching)

noun:  The act of one who couches.
noun:  (ophthalmology) An early, largely obsolete, method of treating a cataract by using a sharp object to displace the opaque lens in the eye.
noun:  (textiles) Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

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