bodkin

The arrows had bodkin tips, and the chainmail is riveted.

How do you feel about Newton poking a bodkin into his eye to see the distortions?

Your homework is to go find a teenager and ask them: What is a bodkin?

For thick armor you’d really want a longsword with a bodkin point, or a bludgeon.

There's a surprising amount of work goes into a bodkin or broadhead, needing hundreds or thousands across the country to contribute.

A bodkin [needle] is for threading and has a rounded end.

I, for one, simply can't read Shakespeare - most of his vocabulary (anybody knows what a 'bodkin' is?) sounds foreign to me.

But one reason the arrows penetrate is that I sharpen not only the tip itself, but also the edges of the bodkin tip.

I borrowed a bodkin from my wife and it was the perfect tool.

Not a knitting needle but a bodkin, at least that's what I heard.

How can I possibly mention the author of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin and Pigs Have Wings in the same breath as these men?

As that armor becomes more common, you see in turn the development of anti-mail weapons (arrows with bodkin points, crossbows and maces, along with swords with more pronounced stabbing points).

A "bodkin," an archaic word for a small knife or sharp implement, is probably a diminutive of "bod" or dagger.

There might be a few word here or there that are not widely understood ("bodkin" is not one of these, its meaning is generally known in the UK).

> There might be a few word here or there that are not widely understood ("bodkin" is not one of these, its meaning is generally known in the UK This is wrong, most people in the UK don't know what a bodkin is.

In Britain, the director of public prosecutions Archibald Bodkin read only the last section, Molly’s monologue, and confirmed that “there is a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity”.

To get some intuition about scale, review Ron Bodkin's, former vp eng at quantcast, slides: [1], page 9 and on.