Crossword clues for piecing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piece \Piece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pieced; p. pr. & vb. n. Piecing.]
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
--Shak.-
To unite; to join; to combine.
--Fuller.His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
n. A patch. vb. (present participle of piece English)
Usage examples of "piecing".
Stacked on the ground outside the gate were coils of every kind of rope, cotton and manilla and plaited rawhide and maguey and ixtle down to lengths of old woven hair mecates and handplaited piecings of bindertwine.
In search of it, the FBI had been piecing together his travel history when he abruptly pled guilty and was sent away.
He was piecing past facts to the present, summing up the existing factors in and around Pomelo City.
He concealed it in the handle of a tennis racquet, hollowing out the handle and afterwards piecing it together again so skilfully that it was difficult to see what had been done.
By calling he was a fitter, and he had come to submit a difficulty which had just arisen in the piecing together of a reaping machine.
Archivists like herself, the Preservationists were scattered throughout the villes, devoted to preserving not just past knowledge, but to piecing together the unrevised history of not only the predark, but also the postholocaust world.
For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.
I had guessed as much, after piecing together the insinuations of Fastus at the banquet this evening.
I started piecing together the circumstances leading up to the formation of our delegation, and it occurred to me that Baden and Trahn had pushed very hard for it, that perhaps they had been motivated by something other than just their concern for the Order and their belief that Theron might be behind the attacks.
The very custom was dying out, and some children already had desisted from piecing between meals.
Het Nkik and his friend had spent months in a secret hideaway deep in the badlands, piecing together tiny components and servomotors, adding new instruction sets.
He had hashed it together one evening, piecing out the job with court plaster when his welder went on the fritz.