thorough-stitch

== English == === Alternative forms === through-stitch, thoroughstitch === Adverb === thorough-stitch (not comparable) (obsolete) Thoroughly, through to the end. , vol.1, ch.23: I might also blame him, that having undertaken a resolution (in my judgment, rather brave than rash) to caste himselfe inconsiderately, weake and unarmed, amidst a tempestuous ocean of senselesse and mad men, he should have gone through stitch with it, and not leave the person he represented in the briers […].