embroidery needle

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   a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread

   Synonymsdarning needle

   Broadersewing needle

Questions about embroidery needle

What does embroidery needle mean?

embroidery needle means "a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread".

What is another word for embroidery needle?

Close synonyms include darning needle. 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 embroidery needle a common word?

embroidery 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.