Definition of "needled" []

• Covered or armored with needles. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of needle. (verb)

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• "THE silent black disk that makes noises when needled is chiefly shellac, lampblack and limestone."
• "FLATOW: And is there one tree that loses needles, you know, that is a better kind of needled tree to have so it doesn't, you know, lose needles so quickly?"
• "A few years back, when Henry Paulson was still U.S. Treasury secretary, Wang Qishan, China's vice premier, needled him."