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verb

Patch v. t. (past & past part. patched; pres. part. patching)

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. "Ladies who patched both sides of their faces."

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."

noun

patching n. The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.

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Etymology of 'Patching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patching" Quotes from Famous Books

... hours, three, four, five, six hours they drifted. Their wireless kept going out of commission, and their radio operator kept patching it up and getting it going again. S O S—he never let up with that call. It was midnight when a British mine-sweeper bore down and hailed. By then they could hear the high seas breaking on the rocks abeam. The ...

— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... reinforcing bars therein care was taken to cause the mixture to be well distributed throughout. The wet concrete was well spaded in an effort to secure a smooth surface next to the forms. This was generally accomplished, but some rough places which showed after the removal of the forms required patching up. ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... a famous surgeon some day, I feel sure," Roxanne said, as she began on another interminable job of stocking-patching. "And Douglass is going to be a Supreme Judge of the United States while I help him. Just as soon as the money comes we shall all go to college, Lovey, Douglass, Uncle Pomp and I, to get ready ...

— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess

... spoken to Henry! He answers for our patching Leonard up for next week; and I have great faith in ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... who now enters, is a stone-cutter and mason, much employed in patching dilapidated graves and cutting inscriptions, and popularly known in Bumsteadville, on account of the dried mortar perpetually hanging about him, as "Old Mortarity." He is a ricketty man, with a chronic disease called bar-roomatism, and so very grave-yardy in his very 'Hic' that one almost ...

— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various

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