Needlework
['niːd(ə)lwɜːk] or ['nidlwɝk]
Definition
(noun.) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle.
(noun.) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread.
Edited by Aaron--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.
(n.) The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework of some houses.
Checker: Millicent
Examples
- So I had plenty of occupation, which I was glad of; and as to Charley, she was absolutely not to be seen for needlework. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Maggy sat at her needlework in her old place. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have always dreamed of myself as a child learning to do needlework. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Little Dorrit let herself out to do needlework. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- With a strong taste for mechanics it was natural that he should wonder if there were not some way of lightening the burden of so much needlework. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mary Anne, at her needlework, attendant and attentive, held her arm up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- While Mrs. Joe sat with her head bending over her needlework, I put my mouth into the forms of saying to Joe, What's a convict? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I laid down my pen, and Biddy stopped in her needlework without laying it down. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We have a friend, father and I--a poor labouring man, but the best of friends--and I wrote out that I wished to do needlework, and gave his address. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of embroidery and needlework, she will be found to have realized her friends' fondest wishes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Miss Peecher and Miss Peecher's pupils were not much encouraged in the unscholastic art of needlework, by Government. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She, equally discreet, busies herself with her needlework. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From my earliest infancy she seems to have been always employed in that class of needlework, and never by any chance in any other. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Wilhelmina