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Darning vs Patching - What's the difference?

darning | patching |

As verbs the difference between darning and patching

is that darning is present participle of lang=en while patching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between darning and patching

is that darning is a repair made by darning while patching is the act of one who patches.

darning

English

(wikipedia darning)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * darning egg * darning mushroom * darning needle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repair made by darning.
  • * 1840 , Frances Milton Trollope, The Widow Barnaby (page 5)
    • 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?

    patching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who patches.
  • * 1766 , Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
    • all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

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