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mendingn.

Brit. /ˈmɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see mend v. and -ing suffix1; also Middle English menddyng, 1800s– menin (Scottish, in sense 3a).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mend v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < mend v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of mend v. in various senses.
a. gen. Amendment, correction, improvement; an instance of this. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]
rightingOE
mendmentc1300
amendment1340
correction1340
amendinga1382
mendinga1400
rectificationa1400
mendnessa1425
redress1448
addressment1481
redressa1529
remedying1547
redub1549
restauration1560
correcting1580
rightening1583
emendation1586
restitution1636
cure1675
reform1700
readjustment1749
remediation1794
redressal1800
redressment1822
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26867 (MED) Here his scrift and giue him rede þat to sum mendyng him mai lede.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5197 (MED) Michel was þe pleynt and þe grade Þat þe folk hadden ymade, Ac so he seiȝe non mendynge.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 452 Vchon..wolde her corounez wern worþe þo fyue, If possyble wer her mendyng.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 218 Happy are they that heare their detractions, and can put them to mending . View more context for this quotation
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 55 If a man soe enter his children's names into the Church booke it is noe offence, and it is not like the mending of a sealed Indenture or a Record.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 67 (heading) A Debate between the Knight and Squire, about the mending of the Petition, and who should carry it to the King.
1853 Ladies' Repository Oct. 455/1 We may examine our new Hymn-Book together, to note both the marrings and mendings of our emendators.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliv. 67 Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twas best to take it to the grave.
b. The action or process of repairing something decayed, broken, worn, etc.; (occasionally) an instance of this.In the weaving and textile industries sometimes used spec. to denote the insertion of missing warp or weft threads into a piece of woven fabric.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun]
dighting1340
repairinga1387
mending1402
reparellingc1410
reparation?a1425
beeting1517
reparationing1536
remending1537
righting1615–16
fixing up1769
servicing1918
1402 Will in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 211 Y bequeth to þe Mendyng of þe heye way.
1429–30 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 72 Also for mendynge of þe sepulcre xvj d.
1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 482 Item, for the mendyng of the said boit, scho beand skorit with greit artailyery passand to the schippis.
1572 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 145 viij. lb. of eyron to the town's rackes and mendyng.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 263 Why this is like the mending of high wayes in Sommer. View more context for this quotation
1711 E. Freke Diary 25 Mar. in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1912) 18 153 The violence of the fall broke the..Coach to pieces, Cost me Above Twenty shillings the Mending.
1777 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 97 By the general sipe of the slating there is no mending of the slating without terring the sclates.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius ii. 33 The pavement except by occasional mendings may be readily believed to have been laid by Pelasgian hands.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Mending, replacing (in woven worsted-coating pieces) threads of warp or of weft dropped by the weaver.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea vii. 73 I can't sew a stitch on account of my eyes, so you'll have to see to the making and mending of their clothes.
1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life i. 44 An old plaid flannel shirt of Peter's, one that he had thrown in the ragbag because it was beyond mending.
c. The action of healing; the action or process of advancing towards recovery. Now rare.See also mending adj. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun]
healingc1000
healthc1000
healc1175
boteningc1300
warishingc1386
cure1393
curationa1398
recovera1398
resuming?a1425
sanationc1440
mendingc1480
guerison1484
recurea1500
recovery1523
resanation1598
the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun]
healingc1000
healc1175
coveringc1230
recovering1380
curinga1382
amendmenta1400
recoverancea1400
sanationc1440
refeting?a1450
mendingc1480
convalescence1490
recovery1533
amendsa1616
restoration1638
upsitting1647
convalescing1650
convalescency1651
reconvalescence1672
analepsis1749
invalescence1755
reformation1772
revalescence1823
pickupa1916
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 10 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 346 Al sekmen of his tweching of verray heile gettis mending.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Mar. (1948) I. 213 He has no fever, and the hopes of his mending increase.
a1790 I. Putnam Let. in Ladies' Repository (1875) May 467/1 He..was on the mending hand, and hop[e]s soon to recover.
1964 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens (ed. 2) ii. 41 It had a reputation as an anti-dysenteric and even as helping the mending of broken limbs.
d. mending up n. (in pattern-making) the repairing of a damaged mould (see quot. 1892).
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1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 225 Mending up with sweeps becomes necessary... We then have an unbroken lower edge by which to guide the mending up sweep.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 101 Cutting-up, the gashing of the broken edges or faces of a sand mould preparatory to adding fresh sand for mending-up.
1892 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 156 Mending up, the necessary repairs done to a mould after it has become damaged by the rapping and the withdrawal of the pattern. Mending up piece, any strip, sweep, or block, which is used as a guide to obtain or to restore the damaged contour of a section of a sand mould.
2. English regional. = mendment n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun]
gooding1473
manuring1577
battling1600
fatting1600
fertilage1610
fertilizing1655
laetation1664
mending1707
top-dressing1744
boning1795
caprification1836
manurance1854
management1877
soil amendment1915
side dressing1950
fertigation1967
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 13 Which [overflowing of rivers] brings the Soil of the Up-lands upon them, so that they need no other mending.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 724/2 Mending, (Lanc.), manuring.
3. concrete.
a. A repaired place; a mend. rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > a mend or repair
repair1717
mending1802
mend1888
1802 S. J. Pratt Poor i. 21 The mendings of each suit might bear True witness of the housewife's timely care.
1848 Littell's Living Age 5 Aug. 275/2 You don't know what darns are, papa—but they are very tiresome mendings when anything is torn.
1886 Housewife 1 109/2 [Darning.] Grafting can only be done when the new piece matches the old..and the mending is to be of large size.
1960 S. Plath Colossus 88 My mendings itch... I shall be good as new.
b. Articles to be repaired. (a) In plural (obsolete); (b) in singular as a mass noun.
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a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. viii. 166 We were ordered in future to take all our mendings down to that..melancholy library.
1863 B. Jerrold Signals of Distress 98 Workmen were busy over ‘boys'’ strong boots and mendings.
1891 Harper's Mag. Sept. 579/1 Mrs. Dorset was on the bench in the porch, the basket of mending by her.
1988 M. Warner Lost Father i. 4 You..reached into the tidy heap of mending to fetch out another garment in need of repair.
c. In plural. Yarns used for mending. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > for other specific purpose
packthread1304
pack-line1447
thrum1466
pack-twine1645
whip1825
basket-twine1833
stocking-yarn1835
draw thread1839
mending1882
straw cotton1882
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 345/1 Mendings. These yarns are composed of a mixture of cotton and wool, and designed for the darning of Merino stockings.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 1b.)
mending basket n.
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1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. vii. 63 Ethel had to fetch her mending-basket.
1899 A. Nicholas Idyl of Wabash (ed. 2) 18 Taking his hose from the mending basket and darning them.
1974 J. Stubbs Painted Face vii. 107 Bessie..opened her mending basket.
mending cotton n.
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1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 344/2 Mending Cottons..may be had both white and unbleached.
1966 Olney Amsden & Sons Ltd. Price List 28 Mending cotton, white only.
C2.
mending day n. (a) a day of improving health (obsolete); (b) a day for making repairs (to clothes, etc.).
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a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. ii. sig. F.v I loke euery daye to departe: my mendyng dayes come very seld.
1867 A. D. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite viii. 165 What should we do without our mending-day?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mendingadj.

Brit. /ˈmɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see mend v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mend v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < mend v. + -ing suffix2.
Chiefly regional.
1. That mends; reforming, improving. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > reforming
mendinga1542
reformatory1589
reforming?1591
reformative1593
reformalizing1614
reformationary1823
reformationist1948
a1542 T. Wyatt (Brit. Lib. MS Egerton 2711) Tempre olord the harme of my excesse With mendyng will.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. vii. 26 Blushing at the Maidens blowes, he checks his mending sprits.
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 229 Ev'ry angel hung, On ev'ry word, and bless'd his mending tongue.
1884 Catholic World Mar. 760 The metre wants a mending hand in several parts.
2. U.S. regional in later use. on (also upon, in, of) the mending hand: = on the mend at mend n. 5. Similarly †at a mending hand, †in a mending way.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adverb]
on (also upon, in, of) the mending hand1598
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. ii. 3 Giuing out that Augustus was on the mending hand.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xxiii. 291 Go on..till you see and perceave that the member is at a mending hand.
1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love Prol. First, to shew you're in a mending way, You'll often visit our Reforming Play.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 23 She was repurged with Success, whence they judged her in a mending Way.
a1790 I. Putnam Let. in Ladies' Repository (1875) May 467/1 He had been quite unwel, but was on the mending hand, and hops [sic] soon to recover.
1809 R. Heber Let. 29 May in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. xi. 360 My parish goes on, I think and hope, rather on the mending hand, particularly in respect to the observance of Sunday.
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xxi. 310 True, the hurt man is in a mending way, But must be crippled to his dying day.
1875 A. Porson Notes Quaint Words Dial. S. Worcs. 23 My ear seems on the mending hand.
a1932 G. S. Wasson Notebk. in Amer. Speech (1979) 54 98 He's on the mending hand.
1942 Amer. Speech 17 130/2 On the mending hand (convalescent).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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