[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.
      1913 webster

            patches set upon a little breach.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. hence: a small piece of anything used to repair a breach;
      as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
      1913 webster

   3. a small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to
      hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
      1913 webster

            your black patches you wear variously. --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   4. gun. a piece of greased cloth or leather used as
      wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
      1913 webster

   5. fig.: anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of
      ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or
      growing corn.
      1913 webster

            employed about this patch of ground.  --bunyan.
      1913 webster

   6. mil. a block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the
      effect of dispart, in sighting.
      1913 webster

   7. a paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. obs. or
      colloq. "thou scurvy patch." --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
patch ice soft patch 

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