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touch-needles

touch-needles is the plural of touch-needle.

Meaning of touch-needle

Noun

touch-needle (plural touch-needles)

  1. A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the purity of gold or silver articles by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

Questions about touch-needles

What is touch-needles the plural of?
Touch-needles is the plural of touch-needle.

Words near touch-needles in the dictionary

  1. touch-me-not-ish
  2. touch-me-not-ishness
  3. touch-me-nots
  4. touch-move rule
  5. touch-needle
  6. touch-needles
  7. touch-paper
  8. touch-papers
  9. touch-phone
  10. touch-phones
  11. touch-screen

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