Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which mends or repairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who mends or repairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
mends .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
Etymologies
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Examples
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It might be my bad luck but the shoe-mender from the street below always seems to be changing his clothes on the stairs.
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So I will leave this post here, and go and buy my share of crazy glue, my necessary dose of that instantaneous mender.
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So I will leave this post here, and go and buy my share of crazy glue, my necessary dose of that instantaneous mender.
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There is no formal state dinner at the White House, but a dinner hosted by Biden is intended as a fence-mender.
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The street itself had once been full of ordinary shops such as a watch mender and a green grocer, but at the time of my return from Kabul, a housing boom had led to almost all these being replaced by estate agencies, the windows of which were filled with depressing pictures of ugly houses at high prices.
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So I will leave this post here, and go and buy my share of crazy glue, my necessary dose of that instantaneous mender.
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The street itself had once been full of ordinary shops such as a watch mender and a green grocer, but at the time of my return from Kabul, a housing boom had led to almost all these being replaced by estate agencies, the windows of which were filled with depressing pictures of ugly houses at high prices.
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The gathering was seen by many as a fence-mender following months of disagreements between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
William Bradley: After the Afghan Summit: Five Key Things To Know About Obama's Problematic Plans
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There is no formal state dinner at the White House, but a dinner hosted by Biden is intended as a fence-mender.
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There is no formal state dinner at the White House, but a dinner hosted by Biden is intended as a fence-mender.
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