Associations to the word «Needlepoint»

Wiktionary

NEEDLEPOINT, noun. (uncountable) A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
NEEDLEPOINT, noun. (countable) An object made using the craft.

Dictionary definition

NEEDLEPOINT, noun. Lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern.
NEEDLEPOINT, noun. Embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats