From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishknitting needleˈknitting ˌneedle noun [countable] DLTZone of the two long sticks with round ends that you use to knit something
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knitting needle• Mr Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle.• A knitting needle, in this day and age!• The next few days she stalked the flat with a hot knitting needle.• It was like a long knitting needle.• They had a steel knitting needle.• Cornelius observed that these corresponded in size to the diameter of a number thirteen knitting needle. 