What is "bradawls"

Usage examples of "bradawls".

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.