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.

simple past tense and past participle of needle

plural of needle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of needle

Obsolete spelling of needless

Covered or armored with needles.

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.