sewing needle

noun

regional variation note For sewing needle

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Levi-Montalcini didn’t mention her home, or the sewing needle that she had used for microsurgery.
A Lab of Her Own - Issue 108: Change | Bob Goldstein | December 1, 2021 | Nautilus
Highlights from the kit include a unique shaped golden scissors, assortment of sewing needles, 24 colors of sewing thread, seam ripper, buttons, thimble, measuring tape and more.
Sewing kits perfect for home, travel, and gift-giving | PopSci Commerce Team | October 1, 2020 | Popular-Science
A sewing-needle, first softened and flattened into a blade, then retempered and sharpened, gives me a most delicate scalpel.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
There was once upon a time a darning needle, that imagined itself so fine, that at last it fancied it was a sewing-needle.
A Christmas Greeting | Hans Christian Andersen
To make it, take a rather large size of sewing needle—the kind known as a milliner's needle is about the best.
Watch and Clock Escapements | Anonymous

An oily sewing-needle will float upon the surface of water, when it is carefully let down to the water.
How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus | Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
Fig. 38 shows a magnetized sewing-needle floated upon a cork.
How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus | Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

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