Definition of Darnings

1. darning [n] - See also: darning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Darnings

darned
darneder
darnedest
darnedests
darnel
darnels
darner
darners
darning
darning egg
darning eggs
darning mushroom
darning mushrooms
darning needle
darning needles
darnings (current term)
darns
daroo
daroo tree
daroo trees
darr
darraign
darraigned
darraigning
darraigns
darrain
darraine
darrained
darraines
darraining

Literary usage of Darnings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oddities of the Law by Franklin Fiske Heard (1881)
"... that they will soon resemble Sir John Cutler's silk stockings, from which every particle of silk had been displaced by darnings of worsted. ..."

2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"... and this sensation would have continued in them through all the succession of darnings; and yet after the last of all, there was not perhaps one thread ..."

3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"At two she made a little toilet for dinner, and was employed on numberless household darnings and ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Those of evil life and those who adhere to vain ceremonies and superstitious observances should be excommunicated after three darnings. ..."

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