Awls

We gave them a variety of small articles, such as awls and needles, and interceded for them with the chiefs, to whom we recommended to follow the advice of their great father, to restore the prisoners and live in peace with the Mahas, which they promised to do. ❋ William Clark (1804)

With wrenches and screwdrivers, mallets and awls, they struggled to resurrect the wreckage. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Make ice awls out of short pieces of doweling (or jumprope handles) drilled a little lengthwise to accept masonry nails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then if you should be so unfortunate as to fall in, you have your ice awls already to hand for pulling yerself out. (girlscout trick? nope this one is from the BSA Field Manual, it is a BoyScout Trick!) +4 Good Comment? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ideally you run the cord from sleeve to sleeve so the ice awls dangle from your cuffs, ready to grab should you go through the ice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We always have our ice awls at hand and ready. it is always a good idea to have a length of rope with you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like others said before, ice awls are a must have for any kind of activity around the ice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When Ricky moved into my Upper West Side apartment 10 years ago, he had old-school hand tools: augers, planes, gimlets, awls, spokeshaves -- nothing that needed gas or electricity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A quick search around the hovel found dusty mallets and awls, so this hovel had once been a woodworking shop. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The assassins drew various weapons—daggers, awls painted with poison, gloves with special devices built inside them. ❋ Christie Golden (2010)

Knives, of course, and thin tools like the awls shoemakers used to punch holes in leather. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2010)