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patching |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Patch \Patch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patched}; p. pr & vb n. {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. --Spectator. 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.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: patching n : the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it
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