"knitting-needle" meaning in English

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          "text": "If you go down the bridge-steps, you seem to have dropped as through a trap from tumult into stagnation. You meet one person heavily dragging his feet up the steps; on a landing a ragged, cowering tramp is dozing; at the bottom of the steps the street seller of fruit and ginger-beer plies her knitting-needles as self-absorbedly as if she were sitting at a cottage-door with lime trees rustling, instead of London traffic rumbling, overhead.",
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          "ref": "1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Makes an Evasion”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 131:",
          "text": "He was knitting. The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.",
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          "ref": "2019 September 30, Doug Johnson, “Upcoming events: A look at senior-friendly events happening in October”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta.: Postmedia Network, page B5, column 1:",
          "text": "Check out this ancient craft-making technique that uses a single knitting-needle to create hats, gloves and mittens out of wool.",
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