darning mushroom

English

Noun

darning mushroom (plural darning mushrooms)

A mushroom-shaped device to darn a sock on. The sock can be stretched over the top of the (curved) mushroom, and gathered tightly around the stalk.

Translations

a mushroom-shaped device to darn a sock on

Finnish: parsinsieni
Irish: ceap dearnála m

References

Reader's Digest Oxford Dictionary, p.1001.

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