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needle
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a pointy piece of metal with a hole in the top of it where you put string through used to sewUsage: my jeans ripped so i used a needle to sew them back together.
Dated metaphor for the penis. British usage from the 17 th century possibly based on the sexual sense of stitching, meaning to copulate. The needle's point (of a compas) also referred, metaphorically, to the penis. See penis for synonyms.
QUOTE: From a poem by John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680): ' The seaman's needle nimbly points the pole / But thine still turns to ev'ry craving hole.'
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