netting-needle

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netting-needle (plural netting-needles)

  1. A long needle with pincers used for winding thread for the production of netting.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, pages 81–82:
      ...the visitant was by no means new to the world, and knew perfectly well that Lady Anne had no more parliamentary influence than the netting-needle she was playing with...

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