Found 1 hit - Term: soft patch, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
patch \patch\, n. 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.
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patches set upon a little breach. --shak.
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2. hence: a small piece of anything used to repair a breach;
as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
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3. a small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to
hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
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your black patches you wear variously. --beau. fl.
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4. gun. a piece of greased cloth or leather used as
wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
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5. fig.: anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of
ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or
growing corn.
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employed about this patch of ground. --bunyan.
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6. mil. a block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the
effect of dispart, in sighting.
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7. a paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. obs. or
colloq. "thou scurvy patch." --shak.
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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.
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see also:
patch ice soft patch
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