awl

n. pointed tool for making small holes, pick

Awl is a long pointed spike. It may be a:Scratch awl, a tool with a long pointed spike used for marking wood.Stitching awl, a tool used by leatherworkers, such as cobblers (shoemakers), to pierce holes in leather.Bradawl, a tool for making holes in wood.Awl may also refer to:The AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile.The Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a UK Marxist group.The Academic word listSee also:Hasora, a skipper butterfly genus commonly known as "awls".Coeliadinae, a skipper butterfly family containing awls, awlets and related taxa.awl-flies, the family Xylophagidae.
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The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Marxist group based in the United Kingdom. The group has had a complex history, but has always been strongly identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna. The AWL publish the newspaper Solidarity. Members of the group elect a national committee, which in turn elects an executive committee able to take urgent decisions on behalf of the organisation. The AWL is registered with the Electoral Commission as a political party, for which purpose it has listed various executive committee members as officers: its leader as Cathy Nugent, its nominating officer as Mark Osborn and its treasurer as Martin Thomas. [1]
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Drill, n a cutting instrument for boring holes by rotary motion. drill, bibevel, n a drill with two flattened sides and the end cut in two beveled [more]Awl - Community and Resources

Noun
1. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
(hypernym) hand tool
(hyponym) bradawl, pricker
(part-meronym) haft, helve

(n.)
A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.