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Definition of Packing needle
1. Noun. A large needle used to sew up canvas packages.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packing Needle
Literary usage of Packing needle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"When he considered the whole sufficiently cleansed, he commenced by squeezing
the bowels from above downwards, and inserting his packing needle through the ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"Almost every Druse has about him some scars where the native doctor has branded
him with a red- hot iron or packing-needle ; for this is the favourite ..."
3. The Printing of Textile Fabrics: A Practical Manual on the Printing of by Charles Frederick Seymour Rothwell (1897)
"Between the end of the stand and the mounted cog-wheels, a holder for a straight
packing needle is provided, consisting of a steel rod running loosely ..."
4. Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A Study of the Dialects of Siĺli, Cappadocia and by Richard McGillivray Dawkins, William Reginald Halliday (1916)
"He took also a packing-needle. He went to the cave. ... And when the little fox
went to smell about, the man pricked him with the packing-needle. ..."
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