Crossword-Solution: NEEDLECASES 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The women are dressed in long flannel petticoats and spencer, over which is thrown a sleeveless, short, striped cloak, drawn round the waist by a girdle of broad brass or silver links, to which hang their knives, scissors, needlecases, etc., and with which they often strap their children to their backs; the hair is plaited in two tails, and the neck loaded with strings of coral and glass beads, and great lumps of amber, glass, and agate.

Needlecases, bags, and so forth, must therefore wait another opportunity; and Ellen Chauncey decided it would just make the pleasure so much longer, and was a great improvement on the old plan.

Young men, full grown, carry about with them in their pockets a little bit of white sugar to suck, stowed away in needlecases.

The less usual forms include drums, whistles, rattles, stools, spindle whorls, needlecases, and toy-like images, all of which present features of peculiar interest.

Belonging to this group are many whistles, needlecases, and rattles, all of which are described under separate headings upon subsequent pages.