Neeld

nild

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

(n) Neeld
(Shak.) any slender, pointed instrument like a needle, as the magnet or movable bar of a compass, or for knitting, etching, &c.:

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Needle

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. nǽdl; Ger. nadel; cog. with Ger. nähen, to sew, L. nēre, to spin.

Usage in literature

Mr Neeld turned pink and murmured incoherent thanks; he felt like a traitor. "Tristram of Blent" by Anthony Hope

I wis not how it befalleth, but thread a neeld can I never. "In Convent Walls" by Emily Sarah Holt

SIR A. D. NEELD, =Bart.= =Portrait of Rembrandt=. "Great Masters in Painting: Rembrandt van Rijn" by Malcolm Bell