buttonhole russian

• петля́

  loop, bight, sling

  noose

  hinge

  stitch (in knitting), run (in a stocking)

  buttonhole, eyelet

• петли́ца

  buttonhole, tab

• пе́телька

  small loop, little loop

  eyelet, buttonhole

• вы́метать

  to sweep out, to sweep

  to spawn, to cast (spawn)

  to overcast (an edge), to whipstitch, to baste (a buttonhole)

• бутонье́рка

  buttonhole, posy

• вымётывать

  to cast out, to throw out, to fling out

  to overcast (an edge), to make buttonholes

  to spawn, to shed roe

Examples

• Он вста́вил себе в петли́цу цвето́к.

  He stuck a flower in his buttonhole.

• Портниха вымётывает петли на новом пиджаке.

  The seamstress is making buttonholes on the new jacket.

• Она умеет вымётывать петли вручную, без машинки.

  She knows how to make buttonholes by hand, without a sewing machine.

• Обмётанные петли аккуратно держали пуговицы.

  The overcast buttonholes held the buttons securely.

• Мастер, обмётывавший петли, использовал новую машинку.

  The tailor who was sewing around the buttonholes used a new machine.