Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small ease or box for holding needles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A case to keep needles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
case in whichneedles are kept.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also got some lovely goodies - notepad, ladybird needlecase, little shaped erasers (which I foresee being taken straight away by small people) and a great cross-stitch pattern which I am itching to start but won't until I finish at least two of my already started projects.
Booty! katelnorth 2008
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I also found a needlecase with needles dating to Anglo-Saxon Kent.
Steel Needles, Take Two a stitch in time 2009
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Everybody knows this copper needlecase missing its lid, from the late 14th century London.
Steel Needles, Take Two a stitch in time 2009
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Everybody knows this copper needlecase missing its lid, from the late 14th century London.
Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009
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My needlecase was nearly as precious to me as the small chest in which I carried herbs and medicines.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table.
A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely
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From Kitty there was a dainty sewing apron of muslin, with pretty blue bows on the pockets; from Amanda, a fancy-work bag, and from Debby a complicated needlecase.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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She had also made a needlecase for Alice, not of so much pretension as the other one; this was green morocco lined with crimson satin; no leaves, but ribbon stitched in to hold papers of needles, and a place for a bodkin.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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Besides the needlecase for Alice, she had snatched the time whenever she could get away from Ellen Chauncey to work at something for her.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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The paths were paved with mother-of-pearl card counters, and the fountain was a silver and glass ash-tray, with a needlecase of filigree silver rising up from the middle of it; and the falling water was made quite nicely out of narrow bits of the silver paper off the chocolate Helen had given him at parting.
The Magic City 1891
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