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Meanings of bradawl in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pricker"
Examples for "pricker"
1
Tossing the pricker bush aside, I delved into the vegetable patch again.
2
He dug through the supplies until he found another thin straw and finger pricker.
3
That scrub grass is probably loaded with pricker balls.
4
In the midst, Frank Talbot returned with the tidings that the pricker Guy Norman was nowhere to be found.
5
John Bain, a common pricker, swore that, as he passed her door, he heard her talking to the devil.
Usage of bradawl in English
1
Cosmo took a fine bradawl, and pushed it gently into the hoof.
2
He waved his hand deprecatingly, the bradawl used for his work in it.
3
The manager started as if some firm hand had driven a bradawl into him.
4
No hope-unless we are 'behind you with a bradawl!'
5
I'm very well aware that my affair's clear enough as they've found that bradawl and know me.
6
They went out and bought a one-inch auger and a three-sixteenths bradawl, a thick footstool and a satchel.
7
For a whole week the press had been busy with the bradawl found under the entrance of the Duvillard mansion.
8
Necessity, which is the mother of invention, made them deft and handy with axe and adze, bradawl and waxed end, anvil and forge.
9
The surface of the glass will shortly be ground away, and then the file bradawl will make much quicker progress than might be expected.
10
It is a bradawl, and its handle bears the name of Grandidier, which is that of a man who keeps some well-known metal works.
11
Mr Bradawl had a pretty tough job of it, for the oak was hard.
12
Bradawl - Awl with a beveled tip to make holes in wood for brads or screws.
13
'Nay, nay, take your bradawl!' Saxon answered good-humouredly, kicking the sword towards his youthful opponent.
14
Attended by fifty trusty followers under the lead of Carlo the Corkscrew and Beowulf the Bradawl, he had made his way to Ghent.
15
By his side was a warrant officer, whom I heard addressed as Mr Bradawl, with a saw and chisel and hammer in hand.
16
The men worked all night on those twenty trees, those that had no axes bored with bradawls and blasted, and then relieved those that had.