darning needle

Questions about darning needle

What does darning needle mean?

darning needle means "a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for darning needle?

Close synonyms include embroidery needle, dragonfly, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is darning needle a common word?

darning needle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.