A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting, A sharp pinnacle of rock; a detached pointed rock, A small pointed instrument, straight or curved, for carrying a thread through a woven fabric, paper, leather, felt, or other material, intransitive verb_ To prick, pierce, or stitch with a needle, To sew or do similar work with a needle, Informal To goad, provoke, or tease