| 单词 | darning needle |
| 释义 | darning needle (once / 66776 pages) n WORD FAMILY darning needle: darning needles USAGE EXAMPLESMarcella suggests sewing up the openings of the squid sacs with a darning needle and cotton thread, but you can use flat toothpicks instead. Seattle Times(Sep 14, 2016) Mrs. Hickock rethreaded her darning needle; her husband rocked his rocker and sucked on an unlit pipe. Truman Capote, In Cold Blood(1966) Dear Heloise: I use a large darning needle to weave in the ends of yarn when crocheting. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2014) 1n a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread Syn|Hyper embroidery needle sewing needle a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth 2n slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. Syn|Hyper devil's darning needle, dragonfly, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder odonate large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings |
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