Category:Patch

Patch, n. Etym: [oe. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for placche; Cf. Prov. E. platch patch, lg. plakk, plakke.]

1. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise Fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old Garment to cover a hole. Patches set upon a little breach. Shak.

2. Hence: a small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a Patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a Defect, or to heighten beauty. Your black patches you wear variously. Beau. & fl.

4. (gun.)

Defn: a piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a Rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a Tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this patch of ground. Bunyan.

6. (mil.)

Defn: a block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of Dispart, in sighting.

7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [obs. or colloq.] "thou Scurvy patch." Shak. Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. -- soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as A steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and Held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

Patch Patch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patched; p. pr. & vb. n. Patching.]

1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the Like; as, to patch a coat.

2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair Clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. Ladies who patched both sides of their faces. Spectator.

4. To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to Arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to Patch up a truce. "if you'll patch a quarrel." Shak.