Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
buttonhole stitch
(button|hole stitch)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a looped stitch used for edging buttonholes or pieces of material:
a row of buttonhole stitch
More words in this category
backstitch
blanket stitch
bunch
chain stitch
crochet
dress length
eyelet
filoselle
gimp
1
needlework
overcast
presser foot
quilting
shadow stitch
stitch and bitch
tat
1
thread
tuck
tuft
Nearby Words
Button, Jenson
button-back
button-down
button-quail
button-through
buttonball tree
buttonbush
buttoned-up
buttonhole
buttonhole stitch
buttonholer
buttonhook
Buttons
buttonwood
buttress
buttress root
butty
1
butty
2
butut