bodkin

• She spoke of ruin coming to my play because of a bodkin, and she added that the said bodkin would be wielded by somebody called Mally… not Molly, mind you, and not Lally. —  SLEUTH’S ALCHEMY: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others - Gladys Mitchell
• She said disaster would come through a bodkin, and it did. —  SLEUTH’S ALCHEMY: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others - Gladys Mitchell
• (A bodkin is a tapered arrowhead, a dagger shaped like one, or even a large needle.) —  Economic Principals
• Meanwhile, the time is long past when the measure adopted by the Congress last week could be described as a bodkin in a fountain or a finger in a dike. —  Economic Principals
• Lat. brocca_, cf. the Latin adjective brochus or broccus_, projecting, used of teeth), a word, of which the doublet "brooch" (_q.v._) has a special meaning, for many forms of pointed instruments, such as a bodkin, a wooden needle used in tapestry-making, a spit for roasting meat, and a tool, also called a "rimer," used with a wrench for enlarging or smoothing holes (see TOOL). —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

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