The Meaning of patch

• (n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
• (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
• (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
• (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
• (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
• (v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
• (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
• (v. t.) 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.

Synonyms

spot , speckle , dapple , fleck , maculation , plot , plot of land , plot of ground , while , piece , spell , temporary hookup , mend , darn , eyepatch , bandage , piece , patch up , piece

Rhymes

attach , bache , batch , brach , bratsch , catch , cratch , detach , dispatch , drach , flach , fratch , gach , gatch , hach , hatch , krach , lach , lache , latch , latsch , mache , match , matsch , mismatch , natch , overmatch , potlatch , ratch , reattach , rematch , scratch , slatch , smatch , snatch , stach , tache , tatsch , thach , thatch , tkach , unattach , vlach