bodkin

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In fact, that “serpent of old Nile” — Shakespeare’s phrase — probably used Egyptian cobra venom, possibly secreted in a hollow bodkin that she carried wound in her hair.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2016

In the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, fardels is replaced, but the word bodkin remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin."

From Time Magazine Archive

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin/ That makes calamity of so long life;/ For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane .

From Time Magazine Archive

With this pencil she transfers a little of the borax to the flattened point of a sort of bodkin, and then anoints the links where they join.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various