Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A needle used in ordinary sewing, as distinguished from a sail-needle, an embroidery-needle, and others.
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Examples
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Darling du jour: Overhead and alongside darted tiny jeweled birds with sewing-needle beaks, whirring like soft-spoken insects.
the vultures dried their wings ianmcdonald 2008
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Her eyes traveled to the sewing-needle scar under his left eye.
Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010
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If you magnetize a sewing-needle by rubbing it on a fairly strong magnet and float it on the water, it will make an extremely sensitive compass; and if you place two needles on the water at the same time, you will see them slowly approach each other until they float side by side, that is, if they do not strike together so heavily as to cause them to sink.
My Book of Indoor Games Clarence Squareman
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_ Fig. 38 shows a magnetized sewing-needle floated upon a cork.
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A magnetized sewing-needle will do, and this will keep the magnetic needle quiet and parallel to it when the current is not passing through the coil.
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The magnetic needle is supported by a sewing-needle stuck through a cork.
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Bend a piece of stiff paper double, as shown, and then stick through it, on each side, a magnetized sewing-needle, S N.
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_ An oily sewing-needle will float upon the surface of water, when it is carefully let down to the water.
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_ A harness-needle, which is thicker and stronger than a sewing-needle, makes an excellent bar magnet.
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Beyond and beneath all of these there is the great ganglia system of nerve tissues, so fine and minute that the point of a sewing-needle covers a whole system, in which there are thousands of little elastic threads, too fine to be seen except by glasses of the highest magnifying power known to man.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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