needle

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

The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.

reusable needles

Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.

a compass needle

The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.

A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.

Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.

A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.

At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth.

To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.

[…]the eyes were once more beginning to show the old nystagmus; so I decided to needle the cataracts, and on Jan. 31 I needled the right eye.

Possibly the greatest effect is achieved in the hand by needling the thumb, the index finger and the region of the 1st and 2nd metacarpal.

To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.

Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.

FRED: Well, I teased her to some extent, or I needled her, not teased her. I needled her about—first I said that she didn't want to work, and then I think that there were a couple of comments.

To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

to needle crystals

A surname.