Crossword-Solution: DARNING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Darning | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Darn |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DARNING | anagram | GRINAND |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DARNING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Housewifely chore | 1 answer |
| Mender's activity | 1 answer |
| Mending, as socks | 1 answer |
| Sewing up | 1 answer |
| Sock-mending | 1 answer |
| Kind of needle | 4 answers |
| Needle | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DARNING (5)
Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.
She told her to notice particularly if a fine linen handkerchief of Monsieur Ratignolle’s, which was missing last week, had been returned; and to be sure to set to one side such pieces as required mending and darning.
After I watched Ántonia and her mother go over the hill on their miserable horse, carrying our iron pot with them, I turned to grandmother, who had taken up her darning, and said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldn’t come to see us any more.
Even after I had done my best to explain the technicalities of male politics, and fancied that I had made some impression, the answer would be: “Well, I'd go, I'm sure, just to oblige you, but then there's the tomatoes to be canned”--or, “I'm so behindhand with my darning and patching”--or, “John'll be sure to go, and there's no need of two from the same house”--and so on, until I was mightily discouraged.
She would sit beside me by the hour, darning and counting while I struggled with the “Joyous Farmer,” but she seldom talked to me about music, and I understood why.
Quotes with DARNING (3)
No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done...(from 'The Storyteller Poems')
As Liljana sat stitching a sampler or darning a sock, she dreamed her way into life as a grown woman with her own household to run, her own home to tidy, her own children to mind, and her own husband to cheer after a long day's work as they sat together by the fire. The life that future generations would dismiss as dull and degrading offered Liljana the liberating prospect of being mistress in her own home rather than living to serve others.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1970–2004).