bodkin

How To Use bodkin In A Sentence

• Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
• The surname Botkin comes from the Old English word bodkin, which is also spelled bodekin, and refers to a short, pointed weapon or dagger. Whence Botkinburg?
• Among the items the Bard needed to buy were: slings, arrows, a bodkin (preferably bare) and fardels.
• An ordinary draw weight bow say 50 lb or so will kill an animal or an unarmoured man; a bodkin point with the same can kill a man in mail; but when plate armour appears on the scene you need a much higher draw weight bow to penetrate it, and consequently more powerful bows and the archers to go with them are needed. Bowmen in medieval Wales
• There is a nail knot/tying tool, clipper/nipper, a bodkin - which as we all know is a needle.
• His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.
• Meanwhile, the time is long past when the measure adopted by the Congress last week could be described as a bodkin in a fountain or a finger in a dike. Economic Principals
• Armed with a bodkin and a barker he rushes and tushes his way through life, slitting weasands and dubbing every cully he meets a muckworm in the pleasant idiom current (so I take it on faith) in the time of our second JAMES. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916
• Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
• Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.