Synonyms:
patched
Meaning: mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; "patched jeans"
Usage examples
Even that one is thin and patched.
"Oh, that's worse than being patched!" cried Trot.
"Are you condemned to be patched, too, little one?"
"You'll do more than that, or I'll have you patched!" roared the angry Boolooroo.
"The Boolooroo has hidden him until to-morrow morning, when he's to be patched to me.
"Quick!" cried the boy; "we must escape from here at once or we will be caught and patched."
The walls were continually being smashed from without and patched up from within. The streets were ploughed from end to end.
"That may be," admitted Fredjim, "but we are much the strongest, because our right arm was by far the best before we were patched."
"Not so," said Jimfred; "we are really more intelligent than you are, for the left side of our brain was always the keenest before we were patched."
The former was an old fellow with a wooden leg, with clothes very much but very carefully patched, betokening poverty honestly come by and decently maintained.
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