touch-needle

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Synonyms: touch, tough, vouch, couch, torch, pouch, ouch, teuch, tuch, gouch, mouch

Antonyms: touch, tough, vouch, couch, torch, pouch, ouch, teuch, tuch, gouch, mouch

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Noun

1. A small [[bar]] of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the [[purity]] of gold or silver articles by comparison of the [[streak]]s made by the article and the bar on a [[touchstone]].

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