Related Clues:

• "Heck!"
• Fix a hole, perhaps
• ''Rats'' relative
• Baste
• Stitch with needle and thread
• Mend with wool
• Fasten with stitches
• Fasten with needle and thread
• Mend with wool using needles
• Do some needlework
• Make stitches
• Mend a hole in a sock
• Tie up loose ends?
• Thus it sounds as if it will have one in stitches
• So that sounds the way to get the thread of it