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Definition of Sewing needle

1. Noun. A needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth.

2. Noun. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc..

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewing Needle

sewerlike sewerman sewermen sewers sewin sewing sewing-machine sewing-machine operator sewing-machine stitch sewing basket

sewing circle sewing kit sewing lounge sewing machine sewing machines sewing needle (current term) sewing room sewing spasm sewing up sewings

sewins sewn sewn up sews sews up sewster sewsters

Literary usage of Sewing needle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller (1860)
"... Pitchstone Veins — A Bone Cave—Massacre at Eigg — Grouping of Human Bones in the Cave —Relics—The Horse's Tooth—A Copper sewing needle— Teeth found —Man ..."

2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1869)
"EXTRACTION OF A sewing needle FROM THE RECTUM 5 DAYS AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWALLOWED. Case under the care of Mr. HULKE, at Middlesex. Hospital. ..."

3. Acupressure: A New Method of Arresting Surgical Haemorrhage and of by James Young Simpson (1864)
"Acupressure applied to an artery by means of a common sewing-needle. The second method of acupressure. side of the projecting portion of the needle is often ..."

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