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A long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread.
darning needle
darning needle
1
Patty threw down her
darning
needle
and clapped her hands with delight.
2
Why, I turned away three score of them with a
darning
needle
.
3
Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large
darning
needle
.
4
Spinning wheel, loom, and
darning
needle
were to lie idle that day.
5
He held up the slim, steel
darning
needle
to the light.
1
Mrs. Tristram sat with her
embroidery
needle
suspended.
2
THERE was once a darning needle, who thought herself so fine, she imagined she was an
embroidery
needle
.
3
There was Mrs. Rathburn in a wide-brimmed hat, plying her
embroidery
needle
and looking, from afar, the picture of contentment.
4
While 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.
5
Leather 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.