sewing needle

/soʊɪŋ ˌnidl/

Other forms: sewing needles

Definitions of sewing needle

1. noun

   a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth
   types:

   darning needle, embroidery needle

   a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread

   sharp

   a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

   upholstery needle

   any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers

   type of:

   needle

   a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
2. noun

   slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
   synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, dragonfly, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder

   type of:

   odonate

   large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings