A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.
An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
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Examples for "bradawl "
Examples for "bradawl "
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.
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.
6 One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels.
7 Well, open save for the trees - the pricker bushes were farther off the road to the left than they had been before.
8 Finally, when no more can fall in, piece after piece is jambed in by a pricker , and the cask is bunged up.
9 Gurney the gunner pierced the serge through the touch hole with the pricker , and primed with the fine powder from the horn.
10 The pricker is a converted silver pencil-case, with the usual sliding piece; it is a very small one, and is attached to my watch chain.
11 Raised lace has to be stamped out from the wrong side with a lace awl or kind of pricker of bone made for the purpose.
12 The worthy Mr. Pricker was interrupted by the shouts of the people.
13 With him began the connection between the houses of Hohenzollern and Pricker .
14 Was this young man really the son and heir of Mr. Pricker ?
15 Pricker folded his measure with heroic determination and laid it upon the table.
16 When he died he was succeeded by his son, the now living Pricker .
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