Definition of "menders" [menders]

• Plural form of mender. (noun)

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• "At Loro Piana factories, workers known as menders use tweezers to pick out small impurities from fabric."
• "This could either be some sort of portmanteau like "menders" or "fudguards," or else it could be a completely new term, such as "wheel eyebrows.""
• "At a time when everybody, whether en el Norte or México, querido y lindo, is busy pointing their fingers at somebody else for the various messes that we have all made, it seems to me that what we desperately need are a few more menders, bridge-builders and gardeners, willing to pick up the pieces, lend a hand, and quietly make the deserts bloom once more."