An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws

Usage examples of bradawl.

I put the bent spike of the bradawl in like a key and felt for the tumblers.

Found the dip in the rock and wrapped the chisel and the bradawl in the rag and left them there.

She also had a tongue like a bradawl and no hesitation about using it on anyone she thought was acting like a fool.

Archie had moved back and given her an uninterrupted view of the work of art, and she had started as if some unkindly disposed person had driven a bradawl into her.

It twisted itself half round, then reverted to its former position, and again twisted itself, moving like a bradawl, not like a gimlet, which latter forms a complete revolution.

By the time The Shadow had flicked the spike back into the tiny bradawl and dropped the instrument into his pocket, there was a click from the doorknob.

He was a fine, majestic creature, a gentleman according to the nicest requirements of the Virginia rule, a devoted Presbyterian, an authority on the "code", and a man always courteously ready to stand up before you in the field if any act or word of his had seemed doubtful or suspicious to you, and explain it with any weapon you might prefer from bradawls to artillery.

Meehan selected two bradawls from the rack on the wall He tested the point of one on his thumb then drove it through the centre of Kinsley's right palm pinning his hand to the bench.