Bodkin vs Bowkin - What's the difference?
bodkin | bowkin |
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 , , Hamlet , act 3, scene 1:
A type of arrowhead.
(printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for picking up letters from a column or page in making corrections.
Closely wedged between two people.
As a noun bodkin
is a small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.As an adverb bodkin
is closely wedged between two people.As a verb bowkin is
.bodkin
English
(wikipedia bodkin)Alternative forms
* bodikin, bodkine, botkin, boidkenNoun
(en noun)- 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 ?
Adverb
(-)- to sit''' bodkin; to '''travel bodkin
- (Thackeray)