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needle bearing

British

noun

engineering an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them

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The surgeon should then transfix the base of each separately with a curved needle bearing a strong double thread.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

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