Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sew

Sew , noun

[Old English See Sewer household officer.]

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obsolete] — Gower
I will not tell of their strange sewes. — Chaucer

Sew , transitive verb

[See Sue to follow.]

To follow; to pursue; to sue. [Obsolete] — Chaucer. Spenser

Sew , transitive verb

[Old English sewen, sowen, Anglo-Saxon siówian, sīwian; akin to Old High German siuwan, Icelandic s{not transcribed}ja, Swedish sy, Danish sye, Gothic siujan, Lithuanian siuti, Russ, shite, Latin ssuere, Greek {not transcribed}, Sanskrit siv. r156. Compare Seam a suture, Suture.]

1.
To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. — Mark ii. 21
2.
To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
3.
To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.

Sew , intransitive verb

To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

Sew , transitive verb

[r151 b. See Sewer a drain.]

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obsolete] — Tusser