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What does the word hem mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To throw off by coughing; cough; stammer.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To border; edge; shut in; restrict.

Part of speech: noun, interjection

A sound made, as in clearing the throat; ahem.

Part of speech: noun

A folded edge of cloth sewed down on the inner side.

Usage examples for hem

The civilization of New York may and does hem in a desolation as fearful in kind as that of Jerusalem, and involves sufferings as keen, and wakes up instincts as fiercely selfish. – Humanity in the City by E. H. Chapin
Wolfgar knelt before her, gazed for one instant into her eyes, and then with head bowed, brushed the hem of her robe to his face. – Tarrano the Conqueror by Raymond King Cummings

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