awl

[ UK /ˈɔːl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
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  • “‘Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after I’ve spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that I’ll be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Chapter 14
  • Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
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  • Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • The two leads give crackerjack performances, their timing, dynamism and interaction almost flawless.
  • Big Brother will now know every financial tidbit about you, every ATM withdrawl, account deposit, creditcard charge, what you bought .... Senate's Wall Street bill in homestretch
  • They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
  • Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
  • I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
  • Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
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