mendings
- plural of mending.
Example Sentences
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The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
They had worn through the various mendings the pocket had sustained and sought their liberty in the sands of Carolina.
From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Corwin, Edward Samuel
The seams were white, the edges curled, the buttonholes torn in spite of many mendings; the whole presenting to the most unobservant eyes the heart-breaking stigmas of honest penury.
From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life.
From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
Amongst his various mendings of old shoes at Callerton.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
