A long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread.
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.