bodkin
9.9
A small tool used to pull ribbon or cord through fabric
- noun
- /ˈbɒd.kɪn/
- Specialized
:
aguja de bodkin
- The tailor recommended using a bodkin to puncture the leather before sewing.
Examples
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Ron Bodkin
Blog text (1) -
Lend me your bodkin, Fergus.
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The bigness of the hole of the Rocket; punch it full of holes in the middle with a bodkin then.
Fiction book (1993) -
- My bodkin?
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These Pierce through with a bodkin or like thing and then put into the tooth that acheth A layeth the pain.
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Where's my bodkin?
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She used a bodkin to create a hole in the fabric for the ribbon.
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To mend her dress, she needed a bodkin for threading the cord through the stitching.
Synonyms
threader
vsbodkin
6.9
A small tool that helps put thin string like ribbon through a needle or small hole
is used for threading and also for making holes or fitting thicker cords
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bodkin is a very old name for a small pointed tool. Think of it as a tiny 'needle' or 'pin' used to pull ribbon or cord through cloth, which explains its use as a sewing tool.