What is "patcher"

Usage examples of "patcher".

Thus the three grand operas of which the poor man would boast, but which an old Neapolitan cook, who was now but a patcher up of broken meats, declared to be a heap of nonsense, were scattered throughout Paris on the trucks of costermongers.

The Baroness audibly sobbed, while the two patchers of her peace of mind gazed at her commiserately.

It was the wharf rat, Jake Patchers, standing at the newly constructed steps.

She then sketched a bare-bones summary of the Bubble culture, with its hunters, patchers, archives, and shifting shortages of men.

In Holland, all the authority and influence of the stadtholder were scarcely sufficient to allay the ferments excited among the people by the provisional taxation, which had succeeded the abolition of the patchers, and was indeed very grievous to the subject.

Navy Department engaged the services of all available machinery welders and patchers, many of whom were voluntarily offered by the great railroad companies.

There being no burial grounds around Blackberry Patch itself, the Blackberry Patchers, when they find that their days have about run out on them, go by kite and suit to the secret place with the secret name: but the joking name for it is the Elephant Graveyard in the Sky.

Hek Portside Hull Patcher, currently the Presider of the Fleet Congress, was in the middle chair.