Needle-work

Quick meaning: Needle-work is a noun meaning Archaic form of needlework.

Meaning

Archaic form of needlework.

Example Sentences

It moves my gall to hear a preacher deſcanting on dreſs and needle-work; […]

You were at school, but I saw your needle-work, and your drawing; you need not be ashamed of either:⁠—that you need not.

And by them he ſent to their maſter a Tent, wherein the hiſtory of the Bible was as richly as curiouſly depicted in needle-work; […]

My Son Johnny, named ſo after his Uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly Child. My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has Children) was then at her Needle-Work.

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