embroidery needle

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noun

a needle with a long eye, used for embroidery and fine darning.

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Origin of embroidery needle

First recorded in 1885–90

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.
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All of these may factor into the inability to move the needle on the scale.
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A sheet covered his body from the neck down, making it impossible to see where, exactly, the needle had been inserted.
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For instance, in one study, white subjects were shown videos of people being stuck with a needle.
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Vibrant color surfaced in textile and in beading and embroidery.
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The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.
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She rose comforted, and drawing the baby's cradle out into the veranda, seated herself at her embroidery.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like.
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Anyway there was a lot of embroidery on it, full of little holes, which somehow contrived to be extraordinarily fetching.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
She was so handy with a needle, and allus ready to cut out calico dingusses that the peon gals could sew up.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher|Eleanor Gates