netting-needle
English
Noun
netting-needle (plural netting-needles)
- A netting-needle is a long needle with pincers used for winding thread for the production of netting.
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 3, 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...