patch
noun
a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place.
patcher
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a word derived from
patch.
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Romulus was a salter and a patcher of patterns....”
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Ah! in the presence of this humble patcher, I remember that a wise man said, 'A king is but a man to his valet de chambre.'
From Frederick the Great and His Family by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
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 William Joseph Long
