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Definition of Needlepoints
1. needlepoint [n] - See also: needlepoint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Needlepoints
Literary usage of Needlepoints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions (1910)
"When, in the rubber-glass condenser, the needlepoints of disrupted rubber ...
The needlepoints must push their way into the rubber in a sufficient number of ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... needlepoints of tempered steel. We are warned, however, that the manipulation
of these points is by no means easy. The holder is small, oftentimes very ..."
3. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The author introduces small spheres, bells, and vanes mounted on needlepoints
into an electric field traversed by Röntgen rays. They begin to rotate as soon ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Reviewers, trained and eager to dart with " flaw-seeking eyes, like needlepoints,"
upon faulty expressions, fancied plagiarisms, tumid commonplaces, ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... —With more of the like sort; all delicate, as invisible needlepoints, in her
Majesty's hand.1 What is Father Vota to say ?—The modern reader looks ..."
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