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bodkin
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synonyms: poniard, dirk, anlace, stiletto ???
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Definition:1. a dagger2. a sharp tool form making holes in fabric
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When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1600)
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I myself being provided with a brace of good pistols, which I was fully determined to use against any person who should presume to lay violent hands upon me, except my lord, for whom a less mortal weapon would have sufficed, such as a bodkin or a tinder-box.
Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1758)
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Asiarchus, forsaking company, spoiled himself with his own bodkin
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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the most penetrating bodkin was the anagramtailed entry in the register
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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