Bradawl

‘I wish I wos behind him vith a bradawl,’ muttered the long one. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There was not a partition that he did not tap, nor a block of chimneys that he did not narrowly examine; all water-pipes, flues, cisterns, and sewers underwent an investigation; he even descended, in the care of his friend, so far as to bore sundry boards in the floors with a bradawl. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Then he put the bent bradawl next to them, and the sharpened chisel. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

Found the dip in the rock and wrapped the chisel and the bradawl in the rag and left them there. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

I put the bent spike of the bradawl in like a key and felt for the tumblers. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

I slid the bradawl along the floor, tight against the boards. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

I knelt down and used the bradawl on the tumblers again. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

Alfred carried the tools they would use to make a new home somewhere: an ax, an adz, a saw, a small hammer, a bradawl for making holes in leather and wood, and a spade. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

The wooden door was open, and in the doorway a craftsman sat with a hammer in his right hand and a bradawl, a small metal tool with a sharp point, in his left. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

He took his bradawl and drove it carefully into the wooden stem of the fuse at the selected point — these were very new-fangled fuses, graduated with ink lines to mark the time of burning — and screwed it into the shell. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1958)

Necessity, which is the mother of invention, made them deft and handy with axe and adze, bradawl and waxed end, anvil and forge. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The other end of this glass tube is closed by a tightly fitting cork, preferably of indiarubber (I), which is pierced by a fine bradawl through the centre. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The "stuffing iron" mentioned above is best made, if wanted for small birds, from the broken steel of a wool comber's "devil," about nine inches long, fixed in a bradawl handle of about four inches, or, if for large birds or mammals, the iron may be made from a broken fencing foil, to any size between twelve and thirty inches, with suitable handle. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

The body wire (having no loops) can be pushed in at the head through a hole previously made with a bradawl. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

The fixing of these strips will entail a certain amount of carpentry, and in addition to bradawl, screwdriver, and footrule you will need a hard pencil and a carpenter's square, as well as some stout iron screws one inch long. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

The surface of the glass will shortly be ground away, and then the file bradawl will make much quicker progress than might be expected. ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)

For packing purposes such as this paper will be found to be of much more value than thin strips of wood or knife-cut veneer, the latter always having a great tendency to split when a screw or bradawl is inserted. ❋ William Fairham (N/A)

The expenditure of a halfpenny, and a quarter of an hour's use of a pocket knife, bradawl, and pliers, will produce a toy which is warranted to amuse grown-ups as well as children. ❋ Archibald Williams (N/A)

The manager started as if some firm hand had driven a bradawl into him. ❋ Unknown (1928)

guy 1: "That guy is a [small] [boring] [tool]!" guy 2: "Yeah he's a bradawl" ❋ TwinJets (2012)