patch polled (pachpold)

Having a patch (of white color) on the poll: specifically used in the phrase patch - polled coot, the patch head. patchwork (pach'werk), n. 1. Work composed of pieces of various colors or figures sewed together, especially a combination of many small pieces of stuff, sewed together edge to edge, to form a curtain, bedspread, or the like. His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of gradually renewing themselves by patchwork . Hawthorne, Seven Gables, i Patchwork was patchwork in those days. Scraps of costly India chintzes and palempours were intermixed with commoner black and red calico in minute hexagons. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xii. IMG:content-2455.jpg:[graphic] patchwork The thin grey locks of his failing hair Have left his little bald pate all bare. 381. lacking in sense. Doe you surmise, O shallow - pated men, That this excuse is all sufficient To satisfie for such a foule intent? Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 18.