Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Whipstitch \Whip"stitch`\, n.
   1. A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

   2. Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty
      composition. [R.] --Dryden.

   3. (Agric.) The act or process of whipstitching.

Whipstitch \Whip"stitch`\, v. t. (Agric.)
   To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land. [Eng.]

Whipstitch \Whip"stitch`\, n.
   A small bit; esp., a small interval of time; an instant; a
   minute. [Dial. or Colloq.]

Whipstitch \Whip"stitch`\, v. t.
   To sew by passing the thread over and over; to overcast;
   whip.

Source : WordNet®

whipstitch
     n : a stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: {whipping}, {whipstitching}]