Definition of "patched" []

• Having been patched. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of patch. (verb)

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• "He was a little man, in patched overalls; bareheaded, with a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest."
• "Absent a comment from Krakauer, we're left to enjoy the many genuine delights of the issue, which include a heartbreaking interview with Jan Arnold, the widow of guide Rob Hall, who perished in the '96 storm and who named his unborn daughter during a final phone call patched through to New Zealand when Hall was caught high on the mountain with no possibility of rescue."
• "Then, on other pictures, there were more men in patched sheepskin coats, poor houses roofed with hay."