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Puffing contentedly on a black pipe, Alsop dismissed the rift in the party, said: "I'm a pretty good patcher."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not the original Homer, but some later matcher and patcher, imitator or redactor.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

"Sam Lamb's wife Sukey sho' is a beautiful patcher," he remarked, feeling his way.

From Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Calhoun, Frances Boyd

The title means "the tailor retailored," or "the patcher repatched," and the book professed to be "a complete Resartus philosophy of clothes."

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

“Cobbler,” a patcher or mender of boots and shoes, is probably from a different root.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various