sewin

/ ˈsjʊən /

noun

1. (in Wales and Ireland) another name for sea trout

Word History and Origins

Origin of sewin¹

C16: origin unknown

Example Sentences

Another campaigner, Simon Walters, said the spills would affect sewin and salmon movements.

From BBC

“This here used to be my sewin’ room,” she said.

From Literature

It was too far from civilization for the undertaker or the sewin'-circle to get at me.

From Project Gutenberg

He was sandpaperin' the polish off a mahogany sewin' table; the kind Mrs. Burke Smythe called a "find," and had in her best front parlor as an example of what our great-granddads used to make, and we wa'n't capable of in these cheap and shoddy days.

From Project Gutenberg

But the parson he come, to keep the spiritual part of me ready for whatever might happen; and the undertaker, to be sure he got the other part, if it did happen; and twenty-odd old maids and widows from sewin'-circle to talk about each other and church squabbles and the dreadful sufferin's and agonizin' deaths of their relations, who'd had accidents similar to mine.

From Project Gutenberg