seam

A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

A suture.

A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.

(figurative) A line of junction; a joint.

A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.

The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

(historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.

(historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.

(dialect, no longer used) Grease; tallow; lard.

To put together with a seam.

To mark with a seam or line; to scar.

Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.

Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.

To crack open along a seam.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.