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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

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

Noun.

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

darning

darning ‎(plural darnings)

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?