knitting-needle

plural knitting-needles

1. alternativeAlternative form of knitting needle.

   Check out this ancient craft-making technique that uses a single knitting-needle to create hats, gloves and mittens out of wool.

   2019 September 30, Doug Johnson, “Upcoming events: A look at senior-friendly events happening in October”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta.: Postmedia Network, page B5, column 1

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   If you go down the bridge-steps, you seem to have dropped as through a trap from tumult into stagnation. You meet one person heavily dragging his feet up the steps; on a landing a ragged, cowering tramp is dozing; at the bottom of the steps the street seller of fruit and ginger-beer plies her knitting-needles as self-absorbedly as if she were sitting at a cottage-door with lime trees rustling, instead of London traffic rumbling, overhead.

   1867 October, Richard Rowe, “In and About Lower Thames Street”, in The Argosy: A Magazine of Tales, Travels, Essays, and Poems, volume IV, number V, London: Strahan & Co., […], page 388

   He was knitting. The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.

   1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Makes an Evasion”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 131