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Meanings of bodkin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "threader"
Examples for "threader"
1
Your faithful threader or brow guru is out of town?
2
Poorly designed needle threader is difficult to use.
3
This is a needle threader.
4
Once she reached Italy she was bought by a bead-threader; he had a shop in the Subura; it's still there.
5
Needle threader never jams.
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