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    bodkin


    1. Either he must come between us and be what is known as bodkin, or some one must get out and walk; and the bodkin solution not commending itself to me it was plain that if some one walked it must be myself


    2. The arrow found its mark, puncturing the elf’s throat at an angle that caused the bodkin to exit from the back of the head


    3. With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,


    4. Still my husband, cap in hand, persisted in trying to accompany the alcalde, and seeing this my lady, filled with rage and vexation, pulled out a big pin, or, I rather think, a bodkin, out of her needle-case and drove it into his back with such force that my husband gave a loud yell, and writhing fell to the ground with his lady


    5. it, which I did as soft as possible, and, with a point of a bodkin, soon


    6. The partition of our rooms was one of those moveable ones that, when taken down, served occasionally to lay them into one, for the conveniency of as larger company; and now, my nicest search could not shew me the shadow of a peep-hole, a circumstance which probably had not escaped the review of the parties on the other side, whom much it stood upon not to be deceived in it; but at length I observed a paper patch of the same colour as the wainscot, which I took to conceal some flaw; but then it was so high, that I was obliged to stand upon a chair to reach it, which I did as soft as possible, and, with a point of a bodkin, soon pierced it, and opened myself espial room sufficient


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    Synonyms for "bodkin"

    bodkin threader poniard

    "bodkin" definitions

    a dagger with a slender blade


    formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head


    a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric


    a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops