A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.

To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture. / (transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at. / (transitive, intransitive) To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

plural of needle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of needle

Obsolete spelling of needless

Covered or armored with needles.

simple past tense and past participle of needle

As much thread as is put into a needle at one time.

plural of needleful

A set of three stacks of chalk off the western coast of the Isle of Wight.