pincushion

A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.

The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.

A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.

“Insulin-dependent diabetics are human pincushions.”

To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.

“The target was pincushioned with arrows.”

To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.