Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that darns.
- n. Northeastern, Upper Northern, & Western U.S. See dragonfly. See Regional Note at dragonfly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who mends by darning.
- n. A darning-needle.
Wiktionary
- n. one who darns
- n. any of a number of insects of the family Aeshnidae
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who mends by darning.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who mends by darning
Etymologies
- From its resemblance to a darner, darning needle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“But if, like me, you are not a darner, you can still make great use of them.”
“Second, they look for two different species ... the common green darner and the black saddleback dragonfly.”
“I told him she was clean, tidy, an excellent mender and darner of clothes, a good cook, and—as far as I knew—a virgin.”
“I can see myself today, standing on the steps of the Pots-darner station in Berlin and gazing - with interest at the milling crowds in the Potsdamer Platz.”
“The darner must decide for herself which method for holding the work she will use.”
“Each darner will think out for herself many uses to which to put designs, many combinations in which they will prove effective, and many colorings suggested by the tints which govern her room or her wardrobe; all of which would be an impossible task for any one person, unacquainted with the surroundings of all our students to accomplish.”
“This scarf as well as the others just described, may be made up in black if preferred; and in this event it will be easier for the darner to follow the meshes if she bastes her net over a white background.”
“In the earlier days the pattern was stamped on the net by means of wooden blocks, and the net was then placed in a frame, and the darner with her left hand under the lace followed the design with her needle and cotton, linen or silk floss held over the work in the right hand.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘darner’.
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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pins and needles
words&expressions linked to cloth and weaving
thread, strand, criss cross, braid, weave, spin, yarn, bobine, spool, lanyard, needle, loom and 6 more...
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Dragonfly Nicknames
See also Dragonfly Names.
snakes-stang, horse-stinger, mosquito fly, bull-stang, water nymph, demoiselle, hawker, spindle, darner, ear sewer, drake, needle and 9 more...
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dragonfly names
mosquito hawk, darner, skeeter hawk, ear sewer, libellule, libelle, hooli, comet darner, roseate skimmer, downy emerald, scarce chaser, keeled skimmer and 50 more...
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