Crossword clues for awl
awl
- Shoemaker's holemaker
- Shoemaker's hole maker
- Shoemaker's device
- Piercing implement
- Little boring one?
- It may put holes in shoes
- Hole-punching gadget
- Hole-punching device
- Hole piercer
- Belt punch alternative
- Tool used for hand-punching
- Tool for punching holes
- Shoemaker's punching device
- Sewing accessory
- Saddlery tool
- Puncturing device
- Punch with it
- Pointy device
- Leatherworker's puncher
- It's at its best when it's boring
- Hole tool
- Hole poker
- Hole creator
- Cobbling tool
- Cobbler's standby
- Bookbinding tool
- Binder's tool
- Aid in punching holes
- You may deliver a punch with it
- Woodworking accessory
- Wood-scratching tool
- Upholstery punch
- Toolbox poker
- Tool with punch?
- Tool with a sharp point
- Tool with a point
- Tool used to punch holes in leather
- Tool used for punching holes
- Tool that's used to punch holes in leather
- Tool that punches holes
- Tool that injured Louis Braille and later helped him create his alphabet
- Tool for stitching canvas
- Tool for making eyelet holes
- Tool for leatherwork
- Stitching tool with an eye
- Stitching ___ (leatherworker's tool)
- Sticking point for a craftsperson?
- Spiky leatherworking tool
- Spikelike tool
- Spiked implement
- Something to make a point with
- Shop punch
- Shoemakers' aid
- Shoemaker’s holemaker
- Shoemaker's puncher
- Shoemaker's hole-punching tool
- Shoemaker's hole punch
- Sharp leatherworking tool
- Sharp gadget
- Saddler's device
- Saddle-making tool
- Rebus symbol for "everything"
- Puncturing implement
- Punching gadget
- Punch with a point
- Punch of a sort
- Punch in a shop
- Poker in the garage?
- Pointy puncher
- Pointy poker
- Pointed hand tool
- Pete Seeger "Peg and ___"
- Old-timey cobbler's need
- NYC-based culture site, with "the"
- Moccasin maker's punching tool
- Leatherworker's poker
- Leatherworker's hole-punching tool
- Leatherman's tool
- Leather worker's implement
- Leather poker
- Leather man's tool
- Jackknife option
- Its point is often boring
- It's punched with
- It might help loosen your belt, in a way
- It makes its point
- It makes for a boring job
- It does the hole job
- Hole-punching implement
- Hole-making implement
- Heavy-duty hole punch
- Handy piercer
- Eyelet-punching tool
- Eyelet-hole maker
- Corset-makers tool
- Cobbler's piercer
- Cobbler's hole maker
- Cobbler's gadget
- Carpet layer's tool
- Braille used one to create his alphabet
- Braille blinder
- Belt-tightening need, maybe
- Belt stabber
- Belt maker's need
- Belt loop puncher
- Belt hole maker
- It has its point
- Cobbler's tool
- Piercing tool
- Its point is to make holes
- Sewing ___
- Punching tool
- One might find it boring
- Sewing tool used with leather
- Leatherworker's tool
- Punch in the shop
- Upholsterer's tool
- Hole-making tool
- Punching item
- Hole producer
- Tapered tool
- Tool for making 48-Across
- Leatherworking tool
- Belt piercer
- Hole-maker
- Hole puncher
- Saddler's tool
- Hand tool
- Hole maker
- Shoemaker's tool
- Punch alternative
- Little puncher
- Leather sticker
- Pointed tool for making small holes
- Item in a belt-maker's tool belt
- It has a sticking point
- Spiked punch?
- Poking tool
- Hole-punching tool
- Cobbler's need
- Corset-making tool
- Boring thing
- Certain punch
- Beltmaking tool
- Cobbler's punch
- Leather puncher's tool
- A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
- Small tool
- Small pointed tool
- Tool for a beltmaker
- Cordwainer's tool
- Bodkin's cousin
- Hardware item
- Saddlemaker's tool
- Pointed instrument
- Leather-piercing instrument
- Tool for making holes
- Leather-piercing tool
- This can be boring
- Boring tool
- Sharp tool used by a leatherworker
- Printer's bodkin
- Beltmaker's tool
- Saddler's aid
- Carpentry tool
- Leather piercer
- Tool that makes holes
- Saddler's instrument
- As everyone said, it's boring
- Carpenter's tool
- Everyone mentioned a boring thing
- One bores everyone when speaking
- When opener's lost, shout for pointed tool
- What makes a hole in everything, we’re told
- Single tool? The lot, by the sound of it
- Sewing aid
- Boring point of law
- Boring instrument
- Device making holes everybody heard
- Puncturing tool
- Hole punch, of a sort
- It has a point
- Sharp punch
- Cobbler's concern
- Pointy tool for poking leather holes
- Hole-boring tool
- Carpenter's device
- It may be boring
- Bookbinder's tool
- Belt maker's tool
- Stud poker?
- Shoemaking tool
- Leatherwork tool
- Leather tool
- Carpenter's boring tool
- Belt-making tool
- Belt-maker's tool
- Leather-punching tool
- Hole-making device
- Gimlet's cousin
- Carpentry item
- Carpenter's punch tool
- Boring device
- Tool for piercing
- Hole-poking tool
- Hole starter
- Wounder of clumsy cobblers
- Tool with a single sharp point
- Tool used to pierce leather
- Tool used for hand-punching belt loops
- Tool for punching holes in leather
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awl \Awl\ ([add]l), n. [OE. aul, awel, al, AS. [=ae]l, awel; akin to Icel. alr, OHG. [=a]la, G. ahle, Lith. yla, Skr. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English æl "awl, piercer," from Proto-Germanic *ælo (cognates: Old Norse alr, Dutch aal, Middle Low German al, Old High German äla, German Ahle), which is of uncertain origin. Earliest references are to piercing of the ears, though later it was associated with shoemakers. Through misdivision, frequently written 15c.-17c. as nawl (for an awl; see N).
Wiktionary
n. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
WordNet
n. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
Wikipedia
An awl is a long, pointed spike. It may be a:
- Bradawl, a tool for making holes in wood
- Scratch awl, a tool used for marking wood
- Stitching awl, a tool for piercing holes in leather
Awl, AWL and similar may also refer to:
- AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
- Absence Without Leave
- Academic word list
- Aircraft warning light
- Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
- Arizona Winter League
- Awl butterflies, the genus Hasora and some members of the subfamily Coeliadinae
- Awl-flies, the true fly family Xylophagidae
- The Awl, a current events and culture website
- Anweisungsliste (a.k.a. Statement List), instruction list programming language for Siemens SIMATIC S7
Usage examples of "awl".
Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.
And in nearby Arneis, which bordered Aubinas in the south, along the Bel Awl Ridge, there was further rebellion brewing.
She and Gai bring warthog and kudu hides, porcupine quills, tortoise shells, ostrich eggs, a sharpening stone, an awl, two assagai blades, pots of Bantu clay.
Armed with a scratch awl and a square Dade was at the other end of the timber, his hat shoved back from his forehead while he ran his fingers through his hair as though pondering some weighty problem.
Here the white-face traders were surrounded by husbands and wives who were trading beaver pelts and tanned bison and antelope hides for awls and needles, mirrors and fire strikers, kettles and tin cups and guns.
But awl promise to do soa noa moor, If God spares me to Bessy and them.
Otherwise, we have a machete out in the barn--we hack open bales of hay with it--and scissors and plyers and a leather awl, but a butcher knife .
Kuhmbuhluhners and awl, and they shore fer to hit us, heanh, raht soon.
Rundel and Lennink, bridging the river Walda at Waldrach and the Finger River at Rusma, and then push through the gap of Bel Awl, and they were home.
The deer-antler stylus Theirid used to scratch tallies had been borrowed and resharpened into an awl.
With considerable hilarity on the part of the girls, they passed noisily through the hall, past the big open doorway leading into the enormous barroom, and Awl- THE POODLE DOG 81 on up the heavily carpeted stairs to room number 10, at the head.
On the walls were arrayed hammers, saws, axes, adzes, billhooks, files, awls, and gouges, and wooden boxes of nails were stacked on the floor.
On the rings of a rack made of a nailed leather strap were hung awls, mallets, hammers, irons to cut the vellum, and roughing chisels of bogwood, which were used to smooth the threads as fast as they were employed.
Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
Otherwise, we have a machete out in the barn--we hack open bales of hay with it--and scissors and plyers and a leather awl, but a butcher knife .