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Patched   /pætʃt/   Listen
verb
Patch  v. t.  (past & past part. patched; pres. part. patching)  
1.
To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
2.
To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
3.
To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. "Ladies who patched both sides of their faces."
4.
To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; generally with up; as, to patch up a truce. "If you'll patch a quarrel."


adjective
patched  adj.  
1.
Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; as, patched jeans.
2.
Partly covered; as, The field was patched with ice and snow.





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"Patched" Quotes from Famous Books



... methodically patched the broken bridle rein together, mounted the pony's bare back and set off to climb the low mountain ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... in front of the house where the widow sat I noticed a group of niggers. Some of them were merely local "boys," who worked for the townspeople. They were dressed in the usual nigger fashion, in old store clothing, patched or ventilated according to the wearer's taste. One fellow had on a pair of pants that had at some former stage belonged to a man about four times his size. The portion of those pants which is usually hidden when a man is sitting in the saddle had been worn into a huge hole, which the nigger had ...
— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales
... and inquired for Miss Atkins (for that was the lady's name), he was shown up three pair of stairs, into a small room lighted by one narrow lattice, and patched round with shreds of different-coloured paper. In the darkest corner stood something like a bed, before which a tattered coverlet hung by way of curtain. He had not waited long when she appeared. Her face had the glister of new-washed tears on it. "I am ashamed, sir," said ...
— The Man of Feeling • Henry Mackenzie
... he cried, 'I am quite well, and when I have a bit to eat I can do the work of two. Give me barszcz[1] and I will chop up a cartload of wood for you. Try me for a week, and I will plough all those fields. I will serve you for old clothes and patched boots, so long as I have a shelter ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... gray of the measureless wheat-lands into which the valleys flattened and widened. There were no longer any factory chimneys; the villages seemed to turn from stone to mud; the human poverty showed itself in the few patched and tattered figures that followed the oxen in the interminable furrows shallowly scraping the surface of the lonely levels. The haggard mountain ranges were of stone that seemed blanched with geologic superannuation, and at one place we ran by a wall of hoary ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells


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