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A sewing needle that heals holey socks instead of just piercing them.
means A long, thick-eyed needle used for mending holes in knitted fabric, and also an old folk name for the dragonfly.
from From 'darn' (to mend knitwear by weaving yarn across a hole), itself likely from Old French 'darner' or an older Germanic root tied to patching; 'darning needle' as a dragonfly nickname comes from 19th-century American folklore warning that the insect would 'sew up' the ears, lips, or eyes of misbehaving children — a vivid scare-tale, not an actual entomological fact.
- blunt tip
- Dull point so it slides between fibers, not through them
- big eye
- Wide slot holds thick yarn, not thin thread
- folk nickname
- Old slang for dragonflies, believed to stitch wicked tongues shut
- still useful
- Mending beats buying new, one stitch at a time