DARNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darning mean? 

• DARNING (noun)
  The noun DARNING has 1 sense:

1. the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads

  Familiarity information: DARNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("darning" is a kind of...):

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)

Derivation:

darn (repair by sewing)

 Context examples 

I cannot conceive whose stockings they can have been that Peggotty was always darning, or where such an unfailing supply of stockings in want of darning can have come from.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You may tell Miss Smith that I forgot to make a memorandum of the darning needles, but she shall have some papers sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to give out more than one at a time to each pupil: if they have more, they are apt to be careless and lose them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden, in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little one indeed, and not worth darning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)