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darning egg
noun
- a smooth, egg-shaped piece of wood, ivory, marble, jade, or the like, for holding under a hole or tear to serve as a backing while darning.
darning egg
noun
- a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
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Word History and Origins
Origin of darning egg1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Six beads from a child’s necklace, five building blocks, a darning egg, a bone, a small harmonica, and a partly consumed lollipop.
From Literature
Lee looked up from his darning egg.
From Literature
Her mother moved her chair to follow it and dropped her darning egg, which the girl handed to her.
From Project Gutenberg
Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change.
He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg.
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