Jason took up one of the heavy iron needles that were used for sewing the cainach covers.

It gave Verminaard time to remove a small iron needle from a hidden pocket.

I huddled there, clinging to an iron needle far, far above the rooftops.

In 1750, he discovered that static electricity could be silently conducted away from a charged metal sphere by a nearby iron needle.

"And this iron needle will now serve to guide Henry Bastaff?"

Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle.

He pulled an iron needle from the hem of his robe and threaded it neatly and quickly.

Later compasses were made of iron needles, magnetized by striking them with a lodestone.

The shape of the needle is compared to that of a tadpole, and may indicate the transition between "lodestone spoons" and "iron needles."

Sure enough, the other side had words cut into the soft metal, perhaps with an iron needle.