Patch /(?)/

Patch

n.
  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.
  2. 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.
  4. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. (Gun.)
  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.
  6. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. (Mil.)
  7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Phrases & Compounds
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

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.