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Knitting needle   /nˈɪtɪŋ nˈidəl/   Listen
Knitting needle

noun
1.
Needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends; usually used in pairs.





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"Knitting needle" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be inflicted on the vault by stabs with a knife or dagger, or by other sharp objects, such as the spike of a railing. More frequently a pointed instrument, such as a fencing foil, the end of an umbrella, or a knitting needle, is thrust through the orbit into the base of the brain. Occasionally the base of the skull has been perforated through the roof of the pharynx, for example, by the stem of a tobacco-pipe. All such wounds ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles


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