Reverse Dictionary: MEND

ADJECTIVES
► BAMPED UP vamped up; mended so as to last for a time → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VAMPED-UP mended or repaired with or as with patches; patched or furbished up; made up or composed of old materials and produced as new → 1729

NOUNS
► BEETING the act of making food; mending, repair; making a fire, kindling → 1517 obs.
► LAP a patch or covering put on for the purpose of mending → 1825 Sc.
► SOT WORK knitting, mending, needlework, etc. → 1953 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► DOCTOR a person who mends or repairs things → colloq.
► SARCINATOR a mender, a patcher → 1646 obs.
► TINKER a clumsy or inefficient mender; a botcher → 1644-7
► TINKERER one who tinkers or works at mending something in a clumsy or ineffective way → 1894 

VERBS
► ACCOMMODATE to fit or equip a thing for use; to put in order; hence, to repair, to refit, to mend → 1624 obs.
► BACK to mend temporarily → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BATCH UP to mend hastily or unskilfully → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BEET to make good or better; to mend or repair things damaged; to heal wounds, sickness; to improve land → c975 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CALL to knock, hammer, drive into its place, to mend; to overturn, to knock over → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CODDLE UP to mend hastily or clumsily → 1939 Amer. dial.
► CONTOGGLE to repair, to mend, to fix up → 1895 Amer. dial.
► COOTER to mend, to tinker up → 1848 Amer. dial.
► DOCTOR to repair or mend, esp. in a makeshift manner
► FETTLE to repair, to mend; to prepare, to make ready, to put in working order → 1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOBBLE ► GOBBLE TOGETHER ► GOBBLE UP to mend or patch hastily → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HAYWIRE to mend or repair something; to do a hurried job of repairing something → 1928 Amer. dial.
► I-BETE to make good; to amend, to mend → 971 obs.
► LAP to patch, to mend, to cover with a patch → 1825 Sc.
► PADGEL ► PAGGEL ► PAGGLE  to mend, to patch → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PALCH ► PALSH to patch, to mend; to patch clothes untidily → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PALT to mend → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PATCHEL to mend clothes, to patch → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RANTER to sew up a rent, or apply a patch with invisible stitches; to darn, to mend → 1673-88 Eng. dial.
► REVIVE to mend, to patch → 1865 sl.
► TACKLE UP to repair, to mend → 1905 Eng. dial (Bk.)
► TINK to mend pots and pans, as a tinker → a1400
► TINKER to work as a tinker; to mend metal utensils, esp. in a clumsy, bungling, or imperfect way → 1592
► VAMP ► VAMP UP to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, to renovate, to restore → 1599