noun. A shoe or sandal made of rawhide.

noun. The process of making a hem, as in sewing a garment.

noun. The stitch by which a hem is secured; the doubled edge of a fabric hemmed down to the fabric itself; collectively, the hem or hems: as, the hemming was decorated with embroidery.

verb. Present participle of hem.

"But Buonaparte, hearing on the 20th of December of the advance of Moore, instantly put himself at the head of 50,000 men, and marched with incredible rapidity, with the view of intercepting his communications with Portugal, and in short hemming him in between himself and Soult."

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Fleming  condemning  heming  leming  lemming  

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