nutpick

• These tools can be bought for this special purpose, but are not essential for this piece if the nutpick is at hand. —  The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do
• Indent the outline of the design with a nutpick or any other pointed tool that will not cut the leather. —  The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do
• So the Second Grave Digger rests his tools against the palate of his victim and comes in As nearly as you can gather from hearsay evidence, you not being an eye witness yourself, one of them harpoons the nerve just back of the gills with a nutpick--remember please it is your nerve that they are taking all these liberties with--and pulls it out of its retreat and the other man takes a tack hammer and tries to beat its brains out. —  Cobb's Anatomy
• I will, therefore, attempt to prise it out with a nutpick. " —  The Certain Hour
• "How much is there left of it, St. George?" asked Latrobe, watching the major manipulate the nutpick. —  Kennedy Square

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