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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: darning needle (0.03617 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to darning needle.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: darning needle
jarum jelujur
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: darning needle
darning needle
n 1: a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or
embroidery thread [syn:
embroidery needle]
2: slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings
that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on
mosquitoes etc. [syn:
dragonfly,
devil's darning needle,
sewing needle,
snake feeder,
snake doctor,
mosquito hawk
,
skeeter hawk]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Darning needle
Darn
\Darn\ (d[aum]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Darned
(d[aum]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Darning.] [OE. derne, prob. of
Celtic origin; cf. W. darnio to piece, break in pieces, W. &
Arm. to E. tear. Cf.
Tear, v. t.]
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn
or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or
thread.
[1913 Webster]
He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning
his stockings. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
Darning last. See under
Last.
Darning needle.
(a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents,
especially in stockings.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long,
cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are
harmless and without stings.
Note: [In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.] Called
also
devil's darning-needle.
[1913 Webster]
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