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Sometimes the English sign-painters changed the lettering to The Four Awls.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Awls are used for holes up to about three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

He made Awls of sharp Thorns, and Splinters of Cane, sharpned with Flints.

From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn

Awls are used to mark figures on the silver.

From Navajo Silversmiths Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178 by Matthews, Washington