0 a large needle that does not have a sharp point, used especially for pulling a strip of material through cloth
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.
Bodkin supported the proposed legislation precisely to put a stop to this ' lamentable ' situation.
It is like using a bodkin to untie a knot; there is nothing to which it is applied that it does not give order to. 11.
I would not trust my bodkin to such a body.
I have here a specimen packet in which are bodkins, darners, and straw and sharps.
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.
Then there are sewing and darning needles, knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks, pins, thimbles, finger shields for needlework and tape measures.
