either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 bc: one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880
Cleopatra's Needle in American English
either of two ancient Egyptian obelisks, one in London, the other in New York City,sent as gifts (1878) by the ruler of Egypt to England & the U.S.