Tailor vs. Sewer

Tailornoun

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

‘He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.’;

Sewernoun

A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

Tailornoun

(Australia) The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.

Sewernoun

A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.

Tailorverb

(ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

‘We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.’;

Sewernoun

One who sews.

Tailorverb

(transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

‘The website was tailored to the client's needs.’;

Sewernoun

A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

‘the apple-leaf sewer, Phoxopteris nubeculana’;

Tailorverb

(transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

‘a narrowly tailored law’;

Sewerverb

(transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

Tailornoun

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

‘Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor.’;

Sewernoun

One who sews, or stitches.

Tailornoun

The mattowacca; - called also tailor herring.

Sewernoun

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

Tailornoun

The goldfish.

Sewernoun

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

Tailorverb

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

‘These tailoring artists for our laysInvent cramped rules.’;

Sewernoun

Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.

‘Then the sewerPoured water from a great and golden ewer,That from their hands to a silver caldron ran.’;

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Sewernoun

a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

Tailorverb

make fit for a specific purpose

Sewernoun

someone who sews;

‘a sewer of fine gowns’;

Tailorverb

style and tailor in a certain fashion;

‘cut a dress’;

Sewernoun

misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;

‘his career was in the gutter’; ‘all that work went down the sewer’; ‘pensions are in the toilet’;

Tailorverb

create (clothes) with cloth;

‘Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?’;

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Tailornoun

another term for bluefish

Tailorverb

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers

‘he was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London’;

Tailorverb

make or adapt for a particular purpose or person

‘arrangements can be tailored to meet individual requirements’;

Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now properly refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, commonly of wool, linen, or silk.