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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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"Patching" Quotes from Famous Books

... flow— as agoas estao paradas, "the waters have stopped." The muddy streets, in a few days, dry up; groups of young fellows are now seen seated on the shady sides of the cottages making arrows and knitting fishing-nets with tucum twine; others are busy patching up and caulking their canoes, large and small; in fact, preparations are made on all sides for the much longed-for "verao," or summer, and the "migration," as it is called, of fish and turtle— that is, their descent from the inaccessible pools in the forest to the main ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... all. 'Tis she that's a stooping to he—that's my opinion. A widow man—whose first wife was no credit to him—what is it for a young perusing woman that's her own mistress and well liked? But as a neat patching up of things I see much good in it. When a man have put up a tomb of best marble-stone to the other one, as he've done, and weeped his fill, and thought it all over, and said to hisself, 'T'other took me in, I knowed this ...

— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. 1833 BAILEY: Festus, ...

— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various

... incidentally involved patching one of half a dozen over-worn tubes—I looked her over more in detail. The customary frame, strut rods, and torsion rods had been supplemented by the most extraordinary criss-cross of angle-iron braces it has ever been my fortune to behold. They ran from anywhere to everywhere ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

... breaking of the defenders. But he knew it was like patching rotten material. His influence could not last without Bill and his reinforcements. He plied his guns with a discrimination which no heat or excitement could disturb, and the first invaders fell under ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

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