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Casing vs Bodkin - What's the difference?

casing | bodkin |

As nouns the difference between casing and bodkin

is that casing is that which encloses or encases while bodkin is a small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.

As a verb casing

is .

As a adverb bodkin is

closely wedged between two people.

casing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which encloses or encases.
    • Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst. Others don't.
  • (uncountable, computing) The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
    • The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

    Derived terms

    * sausage casing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    *

    bodkin

    English

    (wikipedia bodkin)

    Alternative forms

    * bodikin, bodkine, botkin, boidken

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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 ?
  • 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.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Closely wedged between two people.
    • to sit''' bodkin; to '''travel bodkin
    (Thackeray)