darner
Americannoun
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a person or thing that darns.
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any of numerous odonate insects of the family Aeshnidae, comprising the largest dragonflies.
Etymology
Origin of darner
Example Sentences
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While researching, Peters also stumbled across the green darner dragonfly: Washington’s state insect; a habitué of lakes, ponds and springs; and a rich symbol.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022
A green darner can travel as far as 900 miles on its two-inch wings, fluttering from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2018
A green darner patrolled the surface like a fighter pilot.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011
She is an exquisite darner, and I have set her to mend the rent that hateful Lord Mucklebury made in my India muslin....
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
I was good at wearing out my stockings at the knees, but my mother was such an excellent darner that it took the closest scrutiny to find the darned places.
From A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes by Bell, Sanford
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