darning needle

English

Alternative forms

• dining needle (insect)

Noun

darning needle (plural darning needles)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A needle used for darning.
2. A damselfly, or a dragonfly that resembles one.

Synonyms

• (needle for repair by sewing): tapestry needle, crewel needle, darner

Translations

needle for darning

• Danish: stoppenål c
• Dutch: stopnaald (nl) m or f
• Finnish: parsinneula
• German: Stopfnadel f
• Irish: snáthaid chléithe f, snáthaid dearnála f
• Norwegian: stoppenål m or f

  Nynorsk: stoppenål f

• Russian: што́пальная игла́ f (štópalʹnaja iglá)
• Serbo-Croatian: štopnadl (sh)
• Swedish: stoppnål (sv) c

damselfly — see damselfly