Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of piece.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Repaired, strengthened, or completed by the adding or joining of pieces.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The blocks aren't hard to make, but they are a little more time consuming than some blocks because of the mitres - they can't be chain pieced in the normal way.
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Information regarding the accident was sketchy ... that is, sketchy to this English speaker who pieced together the French worded details of the drama.
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Information regarding the accident was sketchy... that is, sketchy to this English speaker who pieced together the French worded details of the drama.
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Starting with bits from the top of my scrap basket, I log-cabin pieced a kind of mock-crazy quilt square – all these fabrics are things I’ve used recently in blocks, projects, swaps, etc (including in two different bags, birthday swap blocks, the orange swap, a Christmas project, the Hever group quilt, and the little fabric boxes I’ve been making).
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"The whole ensemble is so kind of pieced together."
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Loads of vocals, acoustic guitar played very badly by me and then kind of pieced together, so it sounds kind of half-decent.
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I was wary of adding too much cream and I didn't want to overwork the dough so I just kind of pieced it together and hoped for the best.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, a couple of things, you know, he kind of -- in continuing to talk to the sheriff there, you know, we kind of pieced things together slowly.
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And then, you know, we kind of pieced it together like that.
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Although only ten years old Melvina had already "pieced" four patchwork quilts and quilted them; and her neat stitches were the admiration of all the women of the town.
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