packing needle

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   a large needle used to sew up canvas packages

   Broaderneedle

Questions about packing needle

What does packing needle mean?

packing needle means "a large needle used to sew up canvas packages".

Is packing needle a common word?

packing 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.