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Meanings of bodkin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "poniard"
Examples for "poniard"
1
He leaped upon the cabinet in which the long poniard was kept.
2
Then he felt in his valise, and took therefrom a good poniard.
3
A gemmed riding-whip and a silver-hilted poniard hung on the same peg.
4
That long, clear, grave gaze pierced her heart like a golden poniard.
5
He started from his knee, and laid his hand upon his poniard.
Usage of bodkin in English
1
The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot.
2
The first was a needle of the dimensions of an ordinary bodkin.
3
He took his sword in his left hand and drew his bodkin.
4
He studied the narrow blade of cold iron at the bodkin's tip.
5
Sin took another smaller casket and a very long, tapering silver bodkin.
6
Argoth looked for Varro's bodkin, but it was not in its sheath.
7
And a bodkin through the tongue can't keep the dead from wailing!
8
That would be just like being run through with a bodkin, then?'
9
He pulled, felt a sharp pain as the bodkin came clear.
10
The needle darts through the cloth more quickly than the bodkin.
11
And then he once more dived with scissors and bodkin into the toy.
12
What is this talk radio burr stuck in my bare bodkin?!
13
It is but a bodkin, but it is of famous steel.
14
A steel bodkin six or seven inches long, or even a strong hat-pin.
15
When he himself his quietus could make with a bare bodkin.
16
Her hair had been coiled and secured with a bodkin.
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Bodkin through the time
Bodkin across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common