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Bodkin
Definitions
- 1 Closely wedged between two people. not-comparable
"to sit bodkin"
- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic.
- 1 A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
- 2 a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops wordnet
- 3 A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
"As with compulsory Sunday worship, death for blasphemy was for the third offence. A bodkin, a large blunt needle, was thrust through the tongue for the second offence."
- 4 a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric wordnet
- 5 A hairpin.
"A rich, flushed colour—large black eyes—teeth that shone from their brilliant whiteness—a slender shape—and most minute feet, in such little shoes of Cordova leather—a silver chain round her neck, to which hung a medal of the Madonna—a dark-brown boddice and short skirt, relieved by a lacing of scarlet riband—long black hair, bound in one large plait round the head, and fastened by a silver bodkin."
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- 6 formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head wordnet
- 7 A dagger.
"When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?"
- 8 a dagger with a slender blade wordnet
- 9 A type of long thin arrowhead.
- 10 A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
Ultimately from the Middle Dutch personal name Bodekin, a pet form of Baldwin.
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