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
In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I expect all the ladies to know what a bodkin is," says Rowse in the general introduction to his edition.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this pencil she transfers a little of the borax to the flattened point of a sort of bodkin, and then anoints the links where they join.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
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