bodkin
Example Sentences
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In fact, that “serpent of old Nile” — Shakespeare’s phrase — probably used Egyptian cobra venom, possibly secreted in a hollow bodkin that she carried wound in her hair.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2016
Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin."
From Time Magazine Archive
In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You thread the raffia into a wooden bodkin about twenty-six inches long."
From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
