Crossword clues for bodkin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodkin \Bod"kin\, n.
See Baudekin. [Obs.]
--Shirley.
Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[o^]d"k[i^]n), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.]
-
A dagger. [Obs.]
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.
--Shak. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a stiletto; an eyeleteer.
(Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out letters from a column or page in making corrections.
-
A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.
Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye.
--Pope. -
A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.]
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., boydekin, of unknown origin. The ending suggests a diminutive formation, and Celtic has been suggested as the source of the root.
Wiktionary
adv. Closely wedged between two people. n. 1 A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather. 2 A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing. 3 A hairpin. 4 A dagger. 5 A type of long thin arrowhead. 6 (context printing English) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for picking up letters from a column or page in making corrections.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bodkin may refer to:
- Bodkin (surname)
- One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway
- Bodkin point, a type of arrowhead
- A dagger
- Bodkin needle, a variety of sewing needle with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon through a loop or hem.
- John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983), a British doctor and suspected serial killer
Bodkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edward Bodkin, American cutter
- Matt Bodkin (born 1968), English football player
- Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850–1933), Irish MP, author, journalist, newspaper editor, barrister (K.C.) and judge
- Maud Bodkin (1875–1967), British classical scholar
- Odds Bodkin (born 1953), American storyteller
- Tom Bodkin, American newspaper designer
- William Bodkin (1885–1964), New Zealand politician
Fictional characters:
- Monty Bodkin, fictional character in novels of P. G. Wodehouse
Usage examples of "bodkin".
From its chains dangled various chatelettes made from rustproof materials: brass scissors, a golden etui with a manicure set inside, a bodkin, a spoon, a vinaigrette, a needle-case, a small looking-glass, a cup-sized strainer for spike-leaves, a timepiece that had stopped, and whose case was inlaid with ivory and bronze, a workbox containing small reels of thread, an enameled porcelain thimble and a silver one, silver-handled buttonhooks and a few spare buttonsglass-topped, enclosing tiny picturesa miniature portrait of her mother worked in enamels, several rowan-wood tilhals, a highly ornamented anlace, a penknife, an empty silver-gilt snuff-box, and a pencil.
The courtier checked over the ornate clasp holding together the medley of chatelettes: the scissors, the manicure set, bodkin, spoon, vinaigrette, needle-case, the looking-glass and spike-leaf strainer, the faulty timepiece, the workbox, the portrait and tilhals, the anlace, penknife, snuff-box, and pencil.
The arrow had slit through the mail shirt and padded hacqueton like a bodkin sliding through linen, killing the crossbowman almost instantly.
There was a gold Moco stone chain set in gold, a necklace with pearls and vermilions, a gold watch, a rumphlet of diamonds set in silver and gilt, a large rose diamond set in silver and fastened to a bodkin, a gold ring with seven diamonds in the form of a rose, and a diamond cross.
Saturday, and Pricklouse having a good Scots mile to walk in coming, and, of course, another in returning, Bodkin was sure to lay his hand on some heavy quarto, or ponderous folio, with, and under which, wrapt up in his gray plaid, he grew wise, as he grew weary, all the way home.
Furthermore, as he walks into the house, all dressed up in a cutaway coat, and a high hat, he grabs Miss Amelia Bodkin in his arms, and kisses her ker-plump right on the smush, which information I afterward receive from the old guy who seems to be the butler.
Las Animas could boast of, Brazos had a glimpse of Bodkin holding forth to a group of men.
The sudden movement of her body thus occasioned, shook off her lap a little mother-of-pearl bodkin case, which lay more than half out of one of the pockets of her apron.
And so he went on, throwing iron awls to the women to be used instead of their bone bodkins, iron knives to take the place of pieces of stone in killing beavers and cutting their meat, till he reached his peroration, which was punctuated with handfuls of round beads for the adornment of their children and girls.
Their perforated nostrils were thrust through with bone and wooden bodkins the size of lead-pencils.
Four times a year with his beaked pincers, skewers and arrow-headed bodkins he goes squeaking and splitting through the roots of my head.
In one of them Bertie Gray sat, an unhappy bodkin, between Reggie and Bell.
I shall be shut up with the tire-women else, and have a week of spindle and bodkin, when I would fain be galloping Troubadour up Wilverley Walk, or loosing little Roland at the Vinney Ridge herons.
Ragwort and Bodkin exchanged glances, not able to quite believe that the master of a great house like Bellevue Castle, which would warrant the attention of many brownies, would not know of such things.
Bodkin the Boggart couldn't have cared less as he strolled smugly back to the crescent, tail still atwirl.