What is "pincushion"

Usage examples of "pincushion".

With a kind of tolerant pity, she lifted the aspidistras from their containing pots and gathered them into a melancholy little group on the floor, together with a repellent little cactus like an over-stuffed pincushion and a young rubber-plant.

Delicate, beautiful crimson bergamot like burst pincushions in the herb bed.

When she opened it, she found a complete sewing kit, with numerous spools of thread in a variety of colors, a pincushion, packets of needles, a needle threader, an extensive selection of buttons, and other paraphernalia.

The Vegan said his people had never been able to fool these pincushions into letting them make or steal a weapon.

Forams are essentially amoebas that secrete a calcareous shell, while radiolarians grow glassy shells, often shaped like pincushions.

Then Pincushion, where everyone lived on huge long pins, and Spiral, like a little galaxy, Tangle, like knots in spaghetti, Motes, which seemed to be a swarm of particles, Trapezoid, which was not exactly cubic, and Shoe.

Pincushion stars glowed incandescent, fanned by the bellows of the unexpected shang wind and Riachadh na Catha, the ancient Battlefield of Kings, awoke.

But my idea of a sewing woman is a plain-Jane homebody wearing pincushions on each wrist and who spends her nights with one of those dressmaker dealies instead of a date.

If not for their body armor, the Mags would have been pincushioned a dozen times over.

Gugglerun moat, the grapplers crouched beneath their heavy wooden shields and waited while the sharp blows of the black-clad archers reduced their protection to pincushions, with an incessant rattle like hail on a shed roof.

Delicate, beautiful crimson bergamot like burst pincushions in the herb bed.

In a last letter, found upon her pincushion, addressed to me under seal of secrecy toward the parties principally concerned, she anticipates the whole confession of the unhappy duchess.

There was no way he could eliminate the faerie fire around himself without also dismissing the invisibility, he knew, but if he simply let himself be a target, he would wind up a pincushion.

So I spent a worse pincushion and pill-popping afternoon with X-rays, CT scan and embarrassing interior searches, and wrote as requested a long list of where I'd been in the past two months.

The scree slopes were densely clad with shrubs: some of their flowers looked like huge pincushions, and the colours were daffodil yellow and brilliant orange.