英语释义
1. a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down
2. rim, margin
bright green hem of reeds about the ponds
— R. M. Lockley
3. to finish with a hem
4. border, edge
5. to surround in a restrictive manner confine —usually used with in
hemmed in by enemy troops
6. to make a hem in sewing
7. to utter the sound represented by hem
hemmed and hawed before answering
8. equivocate
the administration hemmed and hawed over the students' demands
9. blood
hemagglutination hemoflagellate
10. the edge of a piece of cloth that is folded back and sewn down
11. a border of a cloth article made by folding back an edge and sewing it down
12. to finish with or make a hem
I hemmed my skirt.
13. surround sense 1
Our yard is hemmed in by trees.