darning needle

English

Alternative forms

dining needle (insect)

Noun

darning needle (plural darning needles)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A needle used for darning.
A damselfly, or a dragonfly that resembles one.

Synonyms

(needle for repair by sewing): tapestry needle, crewel needle, darner

Translations

needle for darning

Danish: stoppenål c
Dutch: stopnaald (nl) m or f
Finnish: parsinneula
German: Stopfnadel f
Irish: snáthaid chléithe f, snáthaid dearnála f
Norwegian: stoppenål m or f
Nynorsk: stoppenål f
Russian: што́пальная игла́ f (štópalʹnaja iglá)
Serbo-Croatian: štopnadl (sh)
Swedish: stoppnål (sv) c

damselfly — see damselfly

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