A long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread.
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Examples for "darning needle"
Examples for "darning needle"
1Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
2Why, I turned away three score of them with a darning needle.
3Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large darning needle.
4Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
5He held up the slim, steel darning needle to the light.
1Mrs. Tristram sat with her embroidery needle suspended.
2THERE was once a darning needle, who thought herself so fine, she imagined she was an embroidery needle.
3There was Mrs. Rathburn in a wide-brimmed hat, plying her embroidery needle and looking, from afar, the picture of contentment.
4While she listened for Abel's response, her long embroidery needle remained suspended over the toe of the slipper, where it gleamed in the lamp light.
5Leather saddles and embroidery needles, candles and silverwork were on display.
6"I know it is hard to accept," said Queen Anora, threading her embroidery needle, "when someone you know has died.