mender
Americannoun
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a person or thing that mends.
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a piece of sheet metal that has been imperfectly tinned but that may be retinned to an acceptable standard.
Etymology
Origin of mender
Example Sentences
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"It's a dying trade," 61-year-old Maria Wade said of her job as a "greasy mender" at Alex Begg, a semi-rural mill that has been based in Ayr in southwest Scotland for more than a century.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
Regardless of who else joins what is expected to be a crowded field, Klobuchar will likely run as a fence mender, not a firebrand.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2019
If Spiegelman seems especially charitable toward women who may have more self-serving reasons to shade history, this generosity is typical of her, the appointed mender of the frayed matrilineal thread.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016
A series of photographs taken in Torquay around 1900 present people such as a chair mender and a crab salesman.
From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2015
He was a peddler and mender of toys, the red and gold wagon was his shop and his home, and he had driven into the woods to camp for the night.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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