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PREFERRED TERM
Needle  
DEFINITION
  • n. It is a term inherited from Germanic. From previous forms in Old English as "nedl" "nethl" and Middle English "nedil" "nedille" among others. It refers to a slender pointed instrument for piercing and drawing thread through cloth, etc., having a hole or eye at one end for thread to pass through.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Aiguille

French

Ago del telaio Jacquard

Italian

Aguja

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/616
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