upholstery needle

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   any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers

   Broadersewing needle

Questions about upholstery needle

What does upholstery needle mean?

upholstery needle means "any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers".

Is upholstery needle a common word?

upholstery 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.