darning

English

Verb

darning

1. present participle of darn

Derived terms

• darning egg
• darning mushroom
• darning needle

Noun

darning (plural darnings)

1. A repair made by darning.
   • 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 15:

     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?

Translations

repair

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• Swedish: stoppning (sv) c

Further reading

• Darning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• randing