Usually means: Small, sharp instrument for piercing.
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  1. bodkin: Merriam-Webster
  2. bodkin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bodkin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bodkin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bodkin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bodkin, bodkin: Wordnik
  7. bodkin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bodkin, bodkin: Wiktionary
  9. bodkin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bodkin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bodkin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bodkin, bodkin: Dictionary.com
  13. bodkin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bodkin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bodkin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bodkin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bodkin: Rhymezone
  18. Bodkin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bodkin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Bodkin: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Bodkin, Bodkin, Bodkin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bodkin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bodkin: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. bodkin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. bodkin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. bodkin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bodkin, bodkin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bodkin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bodkin)

noun:  A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
noun:  A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
noun:  A hairpin.
noun:  A dagger.
noun:  A type of long thin arrowhead.
noun:  (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
adverb:  Closely wedged between two people.
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.

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