English Dictionary

bodkin

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɒdkɪn/

名詞

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. / A type of long thin arrowhead.

日本語の意味

布や革に穴をあけるための小さく鋭い先のついた道具 / 縁や筒の中にリボンやコードを通すために使われる鈍い針 / ヘアピン（髪留め） / 短い短刀 / 長く細い矢じりの一種

He used a bodkin to punch a neat hole in the leather belt for the buckle.

彼はバックル用に革のベルトにきれいな穴を開けるために目打ちを使った。

意味（1）

A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.

意味（2）

A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.

As with compulsory Sunday worship, death for blasphemy was for the third offence. A bodkin, a large blunt needle, was thrust through the tongue for the second offence.

意味（3）

A hairpin.

A rich, flushed colour—large black eyes—teeth that shone from their brilliant whiteness—a slender shape—and most minute feet, in such little shoes of Cordova leather—a silver chain round her neck, to which hung a medal of the Madonna—a dark-brown boddice and short skirt, relieved by a lacing of scarlet riband—long black hair, bound in one large plait round the head, and fastened by a silver bodkin.

意味（4）

A dagger.

When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?

意味（5）

A type of long thin arrowhead.

意味（6）

(printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.

bodkins （ plural ）