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Definition of Bradawl
1. Noun. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
Definition of Bradawl
1. Noun. An awl for making holes, especially in wood to take screws. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bradawl
1. a type of awl [n -S] - See also: awl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bradawl
Literary usage of Bradawl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The bradawl is, in fact, a sharp wedge, which is forced through the fibres,
sometimes being ... A natural example of the bradawl is to be found in various ..."
2. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1883)
"This hole is to come exactly over the mark made with the bradawl at tho balancing
point, ... This is best effected by means of a bradawl driven by a mallet, ..."
3. The Clinical Journal (1903)
"Further, you should have a bradawl, a narrow director to match it ... It contains
a bradawl with an extra long blade, and a director a French-catheter size ..."