darning
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]darning
- present participle and gerund of darn
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[edit]Noun
[edit]darning (plural darnings)
- A repair made by darning.
- 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. […], 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?