Meanings of little mending in English

But sometimes a book can stand a little mending.

The horses were not in the least frightened, and after a little mending, John declared all was safe.

Of course that would include washing, and if his clothes needed a little mending she would do it for him.

Bridget, the Irish servant girl, had finished the house-work for the day, and sat down to do a little mending with her needle.

The truth is, Knowles was thoroughly out of place in these little mending-shops called sick-chambers, where bodies are taken to pieces, and souls set right.

"Perhaps, sir, your shirts or your trousers may want a little mending?"