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needle bar North 
a kind of long ice-pick for cutting water holes in ice.
See also: ice-chisel
- 1956 The edges of the hole must be free of rough projections which would catch in the net, and many fishermen use an "ice chisel"--which is much like the needle bar except that the sharpened end is chisel-like--to finish the hole, but others use only the needle bar.
- 1960 I dug down through three feet of ice with a needle bar. . . .
- 1956 The edges of the hole must be free of rough projections which would catch in the net, and many fishermen use an "ice chisel"--which is much like the needle bar except that the sharpened end is chisel-like--to finish the hole, but others use only the needle bar.