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sewing needle

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Noun1.sewing needle - a needle used in sewing to pull thread through clothsewing needle - a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth
darning needle, embroidery needle - a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
needle - a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
sharp - a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
upholstery needle - any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers
2.sewing needle - slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at restsewing needle - slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
dragonfly, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder, darning needle, devil's darning needle
odonate - large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings
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