1The skill or activity of mending a hole in knitted material by interweaving yarn.
long hours of tedious darning
as modifierthin darning wool
Example sentencesExamples
In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
The tone of his voice, somehow both troubled and amused, brought Francesca's head up from her darning and she stared at him, her cheeks colouring. ‘I was concentrating on my work, that's all.’
She was sitting in the overstuffed leather armchair, concentrating on her darning, but painfully aware of the man who was sitting in a similar chair no more than three feet away from her.
1.1Knitted articles being mended or needing to be mended.
织补物,需要织补的物品
Aunt Edie bent her head to her darning
Example sentencesExamples
Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
Definition of darning in US English:
darning
nounˈdɑrnɪŋˈdärniNG
1The skill or activity of mending a hole in knitted material by interweaving yarn.
long hours of tedious darning
Example sentencesExamples
In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
She was sitting in the overstuffed leather armchair, concentrating on her darning, but painfully aware of the man who was sitting in a similar chair no more than three feet away from her.
The tone of his voice, somehow both troubled and amused, brought Francesca's head up from her darning and she stared at him, her cheeks colouring. ‘I was concentrating on my work, that's all.’
1.1Knitted articles being mended or needing to be mended.
织补物,需要织补的物品
Aunt Edie bent her head to her darning
Example sentencesExamples
Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.