awl

English

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Stitching awls

Etymology

Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (compare East Frisian älst, Dutch aal, German Ahle), from Proto-Indo-European *hₓólehₐ (compare Khotanese aiysna, Sanskrit अरा (árā))

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun

awl (plural awls)

1. 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.

Translations

a pointed instrument

Albanian: fëndyell n. Bulgarian: шило (bg) Chinese: 錐子, 锥子 (zhuīzǐ) Croatian: šilo (hr) n. Czech: šídlo (cs) n. Dutch: els (nl) m. Finnish: naskali (fi), purasin (fi) French: alêne (fr) f. German: Ahle (de) f. Greek: σουβλί (souvlí) n. Hungarian: ár (hu) Italian: punteruolo (it) m. Japanese: 突きぎり (tsukigiri) Korean: 송곳 (songgot)

Latgalian: eilyns m. Latvian: īlens (lv) m. Maltese: timplor m. Norwegian: syl (no) Novial: alene Old English: æl (ang) m. and f. Old High German: ala f. Old Norse: alr m. Polish: szydło (pl) n. Portuguese: furador m. Romanian: sulă (ro) f. Russian: шило (ru) (šílo) n. Serbian: šilo (sr) Spanish: lezna (es) f., lesna (es) f., alesna (es) f., punzón (es) m. Swedish: syl (sv) c., pryl (sv) c. Uzbek: bigiz (uz)

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