"touch-needle" meaning in All languages combined

See touch-needle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: touch-needles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} touch-needle (plural touch-needles)
  1. A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the purity of gold or silver articles by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
    Sense id: en-touch-needle-en-noun-pdc87doB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        [
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "touchstone",
          "touchstone"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "touch-needle"
}
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