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 between was supposed to be little more 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The inlaid one, with nice velvet beds for the thimble, scissors, and bodkin, and a glass in the cover, and a little drawer for my silk-reels.

From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Alcott, Louisa May