Bodkin

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Bodkin may refer to:

• One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway
• A bodkin point, a type of arrowhead
• A dagger or stiletto knife
• A sharp slender instrument for making holes in cloth or a blunt needle with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon through a loop or hem (see needle)
• A hairpin
• A progressive rock band formed in Scotland in the early seventies
• Used in fly tying, a small sharp pointed needle like tool with a handle made of various materials such as metal, bone, wood or plastic. The tool has many uses from controling the application of thread to hook, adding fly tying materials (natural materials such as fur, hair, feather, etc or synthic materials), mixing epoxy, clearing the eye of the hook, fluffing or detangling fly tying materials and helpful in knot tying to complete the fly. Can be purchased or homemade.

[edit] People

• Edward Bodkin, an American cutter
• Matt Bodkin (born 1968), an English football player
• Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933), an Irish MP, author, journalist, newspaper editor, barrister (K.C.) and judge
• Maud Bodkin (1875-1967), a British classical scholar
• Odds Bodkin (born 1953), an American storyteller
• Tom Bodkin, an American newspaper designer
• Bodkin, title character of novel, Bodkin, by Bart Midwood (Random House, 1967)
• Monty Bodkin, a fictional character in novels of P. G. Wodehouse
• John Bodkin Adams (1899-1983), a British doctor and suspected serial killer

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