fashioning needle

English

Noun

fashioning needle (plural fashioning needles)

1. A needle in a knitting machine that is used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fashioning needle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)