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Patch   /pætʃ/   Listen
noun
Patch  n.  
1.
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. "Patches set upon a little breach."
2.
Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
3.
A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. "Your black patches you wear variously."
4.
(Gun.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
5.
Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. "Employed about this patch of ground."
6.
(Mil.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
7.
A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. (Obs. or Colloq.) "Thou scurvy patch."
Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea.
Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.


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."





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"Patch" Quotes from Famous Books



... trade routes to the interior having drawn the caravans in other directions. Soon it turned up the side of the ravine. The sayall bushes began to grow more densely, and the wady spread to a great width. Beyond a patch of pebbles lay a brown carpet of tough grass. In the center stood seven date-trees and a considerable number of stunted bushes, these latter differing from the sayall only in the size of their thorns, which were fully two inches long and seemingly untouchable. Yet, ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... involved nothing less than the imminent peril of that political supremacy which the party had so long enjoyed. With Mr. Atwood as candidate, success might be considered as certain. To a short-sighted and a weak man, it would have appeared the obvious policy to patch up the difficulty, and, at all events, to conquer, under whatever leadership, and with whatever allies. But it was one of those junctures which test the difference between the man of principle and the mere politician—the man of moral courage and him who yields to temporary ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... dog's barking, the old captain, who was at work in a small potato patch he cultivated, came hobbling to meet the boys as they tied ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... up yonder," said the little man. "It was smashed to atoms in the world and thrown away. But, ho, ho, ho! there is nothing that I cannot mend, and a mended fiddle is an amended fiddle. It improves the tone. Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the ...
— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... heart from his apparent mood to speak of some facts of the morning that had moved her fancy. "What a strange little nest it is up here among these half-thawed hills! and imagine the winter, the fifteen or twenty months of it, they must have every year. I could almost have shed tears over that patch of corn that had escaped the early August frosts. I suppose this is a sort of Indian summer that we are enjoying now, and that the cold weather will set in after a week or two. My cousin and I thought that Tadoussac ...
— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells


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