needle v.
to fire a needle gun or needle-beam at
Weaponry
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1943
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Eric Frank Russell
These things were the remains of the two natives he’d needled, but the needlers had not caused that awful rotting of the flesh.
Symbiotica in Astounding Science-Fiction Oct. 152/2 -
1948
H. Beam Piper
And when I back-slip, after I've been needled, I generate a new time-line? Is that it?
Police Operation in Astounding Science Fiction July 18/1
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1953
Andre Norton
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The longer Smitt needled him in that fashion the more uneasy he became.
Star Rangers ii. 39
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1957
Poul Anderson
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Quickly, now, go to my cabin. I shall be behind, If necessary I will needle you and drag you there.
Brake in Astounding Science Fiction Aug. 10/2
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1976
Richard C. Meredith
I expected to see another boxy chronalcage come shimmering, screaming out of time at any moment, its occupants armed and ready to needle me out—if not kill me outright—and take me back to stand trial.
Run, Come See Jerusalem! 9
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1979
She let go of the gun. No sense needling him now. The four to ten seconds the percurare took to work was time enough for him to empty the shooter at her.
Doppelganger Gambit i. 15
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1984
Gordon R. Dickson
Hal touched him gently on the shoulder and went to look at the other two casualties, a woman who had taken a weapon burn in her right shoulder, superficial but painful, and a man who had been needled in the chest. Both these other two were unconscious, under sedation.
Final Encyclopedia xxiv. 235
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2010
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Ian McDonald
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If the scene-of-crime bots see him they’ll needle him with their stings. That would be exciting.
Dervish House i. 19
Research requirements
antedating 1943
Earliest cite
Eric Frank Russell, 'Symbiotica'
Research History
Mike Stone suggested the stories in Eric Frank Russell's "Men, Martians and Machines", and Mike Christie located a cite in the 1943 first magazine appearance.Douglas Winston submitted a 1976 cite from Richard Meredith's "Run, Come See Jerusalem!".
Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a reprint of H.Beam Piper's "Police Operation"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1948 first magazine appearance.
Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1985 reprint of Gordon R. Dickson's 1984 "The Final Encyclopedia".
Douglas Winston submitted a 1979 cite for "needling" from Lee Killough's "The Doppelganger Gambit".
Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1980 reprint of Poul Anderson's "Brake", which Mike Christie verified in the 1957 first publication.
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2010 cite from Ian McDonald.
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