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dining needle

dining needle is the alternative form of darning needle.

Meaning of darning needle

Noun

darning needle (plural darning needles)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A needle used for darning.
    Synonyms:
    tapestry needle, crewel needle, darner
  2. A damselfly, or a dragonfly that resembles one.

Forms of dining needle

pluraldining needles

Origin of dining needle

A misconstrual of darning needle (“dragonfly”).

Questions about dining needle

What is dining needle the alternative form of?
Dining needle is the alternative form of darning needle.

Words near dining needle in the dictionary

  1. dining hall
  2. dining halls
  3. dining in
  4. dining leaf
  5. dining leaves
  6. dining needle
  7. dining needles
  8. dining on ashes
  9. dining out
  10. dining out on
  11. dining room

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dining needle (page history and authors); darning needle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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