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ˈneedle-pointed, a.
[needle n. 1.]
Having a point like that of a needle. Chiefly fig.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 73 With needle-pointed tongue The Flies have bor'd a passage through their clewes. 1635Quarles Embl., Farewell i, He whose gentle palmes Thy needle-pointed sinnes have naild. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 541 Philology!..lend me thy needle-pointed pencil, that I may trace out the hair-breadth differences of language. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxv. 270 The next opening brought in view sharp needle-pointed peaks. |