What is "needler"

Usage examples of "needler".

You could have been an Artefact of a type I had never before encountered, something new out of the Needler labs.

Lock Ten debarking area when I got there, two Security squads with holstered needlers standing behind him.

I caught that look, when King Bester was talking about visiting a Needler lab.

Skipper or no skipper, I became fed up, hefted my needler in my right hand, prowled half bent along the footwalk cut through the threads of the airlock worm.

Vail, his needier already drawn, rayed the fellow dead before he could aim it, then saw that the two pseudo-policemen had drawn their needlers and were aiming in the direction of Salgath Trod.

A couple of policemen in green uniforms, with ultrasonic paralyzers dangling by thongs from their left wrists and bolstered sigma-ray needlers like the one on the desk inside the dome, were kidding with some girls in vivid orange and scarlet and green smocks.

The policemen grasped their paralyzers, drew their needlers, and hurried into the dome.

Fourth Level idiom, for Verkan Vail was a man who loved good weapons, be they sigma-ray needlers, neutron-disruption blasters, or the solid-missile projectors of the lower levels.

All three were carrying sigma-ray needlers, and Labdurg had a blaster as well.

HK needlers of the droids would annihilate as many of the norms as possible upon the next confirmed sighting.

Each has sophisticated warning systems and large underwater needlers which operate automatically in tandem when anything comes too close.

A greeter waiting just inside welcomed us to the governor's home and directed us to an open pair of double doors down the hall, while a second pair of guards relieved Kutzko of his puff adder needler clips and gave him a single clip of slapshots in return.

Space stretched away from him, but his arm stretched with it, and the solid heavy feel of the needler reassured him that his fingers, even if they momentarily resembled tentacles, had firm hold of the weapon.

The attempt to block the muzzle of Kutzko's needler was abundant proof that the thunderheads had both the intelligence and the means to defend themselves, and Eisenstadt knew it.