Definitionn. an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws
Last update: October 3, 2015
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For packing purposes such as this paper will be found to be of much more value than thin strips of wood or knife-cut veneer, the latter always having a great tendency to split when a screw or bradawl is inserted. [Please select]
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The other end of this glass tube is closed by a tightly fitting cork, preferably of indiarubber (I), which is pierced by a fine bradawl through the centre. [Please select]
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This is repeated over and over again; the movement, in short, is identical with that we give to a bradawl when boring a hole in a plank. [Please select]
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It would be hard to imagine anything more curious than this little carpenter, as she stands upright and brings her nasal bradawl down towards her body. [Please select]
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Her drill is not a spiral gimlet which will sink itself by a constant rotary motion; it is a bradawl, or rather a trochar, which progresses by little bites, by alternative erosion, first in one direction, then the other. [Please select]
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