• Synonyms: patching
  Meaning: the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it

• A little patching and repairing from time to time is all we want.
• 'We all want a little patching and repairing from time to time,' he chirped.
• But take all the prisoners you can, my brave men, and to-morrow we will have a jolly time patching them.
• It was the first time the girl had seen them together and she marveled at the queer patching that had so strongly united them, yet so thoroughly separated them.
• "You see," remarked Jimfred, as they seated themselves again upon the bench, "the Boolooroo has ordered the patching to take place to-morrow morning after breakfast.
• At sunset they stopped to rest in a churchyard, where two men were sitting patching a Punch-and-Judy show booth, while the figures of Punch, the doctor, the executioner and the devil were lying on the grass waiting to be mended.

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