bodkin
see also: Bodkin
Noun
Bodkin
Proper noun
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see also: Bodkin
Noun
bodkin (plural bodkins)
- A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
- A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
- A hairpin.
- A dagger.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
- The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
- The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
- The insolence of office and the spurns
- That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
- When he himself might his quietus make
- With a bare bodkin?
- 1932 (posthumous), D.H. Lawrence, "The Ship of Death"
- And can a man his own quietus make
- with a bare bodkin?
- With daggers, bodkins, bullets, man can make
- a bruise or break of exit for his life;
- but is that a quietus, O tell me, is it quietus?
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
- A type of long thin arrowhead.
- (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.
- A multifunctional tool for pinning cloaks at the nape of the neck used also as a decorative hairpin or as a sewing instrument.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
- The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
- The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
- The insolence of office and the spurns
- That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
- When he himself might his quietus make
- With a bare bodkin?
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
bodkin (not comparable)
- Closely wedged between two people.
- to sit bodkin; to ride bodkin
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. page 343.
- He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.
Bodkin
Proper noun
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