darning

English

Verb

darning

1. present participle and gerund of darn

Derived terms

• darning egg
• darning last
• darning mushroom
• darning needle
• darning wool

 

Noun

darning (plural darnings)

1. A repair made by darning.
   • 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 15:

     Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

Derived terms

• devil's darning needle

 

Translations

repair

• Swedish: stoppning (sv) c

Further reading

• Darning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• randing