netting-needle

English

Noun

netting-needle (plural netting-needles)

  1. A netting-needle is a long needle with pincers used for winding thread for the production of netting.
    • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 3, pages 81-82:
      ...the visitant was by no means new to the world, and knew perfectly well that Lady Anne had no more parliamentary influence than the netting-needle she was playing with...
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