netting-needle

English

Noun

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...

Translations

long needle with pincers used in the production of netting

• Irish: snáthadán m