a small slender usu steel instrument with an eye for thread at one end and a sharp point at the other, used for sewing

any of various similar larger instruments used e.g. in crocheting or knitting

a type of needle designed to carry sutures when sewing tissues in surgery

a slender hollow pointed end of a hypodermic syringe

a slender pointed indicator on a dial, compass, etc

a stylus for playing records

a pointed crystal

a sharp pinnacle of rock

= obelisk (1)

a needle-shaped leaf, esp of a conifer

a slender pointed rod controlling a fine inlet or outlet, e.g. in a valve

a beam used to take the load of a wall while supported at each end

Brit, informal (often before a noun) ill feeling or hostility due to rivalry

literary to sew or pierce (something) with a needle, or as if with a needle

the fairy-cupped elf-needled mat of moss — Robert Browning

informal to provoke (somebody) by persistent teasing or gibes