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Webster 1828 Edition


Darning

D'ARNING

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ppr.
Mending in imitation of the original texture; sewing together; as a torn stocking, or cloth.

D'ARNING

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Noun.
The act of mending, as a hole in a garment.

Definition 2024


darning

darning

English

Verb

darning

  1. present participle of darn

Derived terms

Noun

darning (plural darnings)

  1. A repair made by darning.
    • 1840, Frances Milton Trollope, The Widow Barnaby (page 5)
      Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?