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darning egg

noun

  1. 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

  1. a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

Lee looked up from his darning egg.

Her mother moved her chair to follow it and dropped her darning egg, which the girl handed to her.

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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