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Definition of the day : « awl »

  • As in drill : noun tool for boring
Example sentences :
  • We cut with a knife, we pierce with an awl, we weave with a shuttle, we name with a name.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • The shuttle will be made by the carpenter; the awl by the smith or skilled person.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • And "hahaha" echoed the old man, still sitting with the awl in his hand.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • Then he took an awl, heated it red-hot, and applied it to her eye—her sound one.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • Baba Mustapha was seated with an awl in his hand, just going to work.
  • Extract from : « The Arabian Nights » by Unknown
  • Never employ an awl for this work, as the fiber of the wood will be torn up by it.
  • Extract from : « Carpentry for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe
  • With an awl that he took from his belt Brock pierced Loki's lips.
  • Extract from : « The Children of Odin » by Padraic Colum
  • He ran the awl far into his finger, but he did not care for that.
  • Extract from : « What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales » by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Bodkin, an awl used for making the holes in the boards for the slips.
  • Extract from : « Bookbinding, and the Care of Books » by Douglas Cockerell
  • Thereupon he laid aside his awl to assume the dignity of a charlatan.
  • Extract from : « Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery » by Robert Means Lawrence