English Dictionary

bodkin

/ˈbɒdkɪn/

noun

A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather. / A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing. / A hairpin. / A dagger. / A type of long thin arrowhead.

She used a bodkin to thread the needle.

意味（1）

A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

A dagger.

When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?

意味（5）

A type of long thin arrowhead.

意味（6）

(printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.