bodkin (1 the orig. sense, Chaucer onwards; the mod. use is post-S.)
1.
dagger
Ham. III. i. 76
“When he himself might
his quietus make With a bare
bodkin.”
2.
small pointed
instrument for piercing holes in cloth, &c.,
Wint. III. iii. 87.
3.
long pin or
pin-shaped ornament for the hair
LLL. V. ii. 612
“The head of a
bodkin.”
