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Bodkin
Bodkin meaning
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.
Example sentences (7)
Arrowheads are usually separated by function: *Bodkin points are short, rigid points with a small cross-section.
In 2011, Mike Loades conducted an experiment in which short bodkin arrows were shot at a range of convert by bows of convert.
In a modern test, a direct hit from a hard steel bodkin point penetrated Damascus chain armour.
John Bodkin Adams is also known to have used heroin as a murder weapon.
Results against plate armour of "minimum thickness" (1.2mm) were similar to the coat of plates, in that the needle bodkin penetrated to a shallow depth, the other arrows not at all.
The experimenters, however, concluded that a long bodkin arrow would have penetrated through this armour combination.
Van der Kiste, p. 158 Hervey and Frederick (using a pseudonym "Captain Bodkin") wrote a theatrical comedy together which was staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in October 1731.