plain stitch

1. 1.

   a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

   Synonymsknitknit stitchplain

   Broaderknitting stitch

Questions about plain stitch

What does plain stitch mean?

plain stitch means "a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side".

What is another word for plain stitch?

Close synonyms include knit, knit stitch, plain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plain stitch a common word?

plain stitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.