Usually means: Edge or border of cloth.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word hem:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hem, hem-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hem, hem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hem, hem, hem-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hem, hem-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hem: Vocabulary.com
  6. He'm, Hem: Wordnik
  7. hem: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hem, 'hem, hem, hem-: Wiktionary
  9. hem, hem-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hem: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hem, hem, hem-: Dictionary.com
  13. hem (interj.), hem (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hem: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hem (band), Hem (disambiguation), Hem (knitting), Hem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hem: Rhymezone
  19. hem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hem, hem-: MyWord.info
  22. HEM, Hem: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. hem: Free Dictionary
  24. hem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. hem, hem-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. he'm, hem: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hem-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hem (sheetmetal), hem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hem(o)-, hem-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HEM: Acronym Finder
  3. HEM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. hem: Idioms
  6. hem: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hem: Easton Bible

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

(Note: See heming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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