The ends should be tied, and the cord run into the bag with a bodkin or tape-needle.
Then once more he would resume his repairing, with great precautions, his only tools being a pair of scissors and a bodkin.
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Bodkinsupported the proposed legislation precisely to put a stop to this ' lamentable ' situation.
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It is like using abodkinto untie a knot; there is nothing to which it is applied that it does not give order to. 11.
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I would not trust mybodkinto such a body.
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I have here a specimen packet in which are bodkins, darners, and straw and sharps.
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Boot and shoe laces, sewing and darning needles, knitting pins, bodkins, crochet hooks, thimbles and tape measures are all exempt from tax—but elastic is not.
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Then there are sewing and darning needles, knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks, pins, thimbles, finger shields for needlework and tape measures.
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A needlebodkinpenetrated every type, but may not have been able to inflict a lethal injury behind plate.
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Against high quality riveted maille, the needlebodkinand curved broadhead penetrated 2.8.
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Thebodkinpoint eventually fell out of use during the 16th and 17th centuries, as armour largely ceased to be worn.
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Bodkinheads are simple spikes made of metal of various shapes, designed to pierce armour.
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Bodkintours both nationally and internationally, appearing at storytelling festivals, schools, universities, theaters and museums.
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Against a coat of plates, the needlebodkinachieved 0.3 penetration.
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The typicalbodkinwas a square-section arrowhead, generally up to 4 (11.5cm) long and (1 cm) thick at its widest point, tapered down behind this initial punch shape.
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Bodkinearned a place in the history of the detective novel by virtue of his invention of the first detective family.
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Bodkinwas in time to alert neighbours but the building was destroyed in the fire, but firemen managed to prevent it from spreading to nearby houses.
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