Hypertext Webster Gateway: "patched"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
patched
adj 1: mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch;
"patched jeans"
2: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or
texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "a
black-and-white spotted cow" [syn: {spotted}]
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