cable needle
A short, often curved needle used in knitting to hold stitches when making cable patterns.
I use a cable needle to knit a cable pattern.
Standard kanji spelling for this knitting tool.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; it is a variant.
Compound of 縄 (nawa, 'rope, cable') + 編み (ami, 'knitting') + 針 (hari, 'needle'), literally 'cable-knitting needle'.