* Bradawl, a woodworking hand tool for making small holes
* Scratch awl, a woodworking layout and point-making tool used to scribe a line
* Stitching awl, a tool for piercing holes in a variety of materials such as leather or canvases
Biology
* Butterfly species called "awl", of the family ''
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
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**Awls, genus ''
Hasora
''Hasora'', the awls, are a genus of skipper butterflies. ''Hasora'' species are found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.
Species
* '' Hasora alta'' de Jong, 1982 Sumatra
* ''Hasora anura'' - slate awl
** ''Hasora anura taiwana'' Hsu, ...
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* Awl-flies, family
Xylophagidae
The Brachyceran infraorder Xylophagomorpha is a small group that consists solely of the family Xylophagidae, which presently contains subfamilies that were sometimes considered to be two small related families (Coenomyiidae and Rachiceridae). ...
*Awl nematodae, or genus ''
Dolichodorus
''Dolichodorus'' is a genus of nematodes known commonly as awl nematodes.Crow, W. T. and A. S. BrammerAwl nematodes, ''Dolichodorus'' spp.EENY-241. University of Florida IFAS. 2001.Farah Awl (1937–1991), Somali writer
* William Maclay Awl (1799–1876), American psychiatrist and politician
Other uses
*
AA-4 'Awl'
The K-9 ( NATO reporting name AA-4 'Awl') was a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, a ...
, the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
*
Academic Word List The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English words which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium highe ...
, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts
* Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
*
Arizona Winter League
The Arizona Winter League was an independent instructional winter baseball league. Arizona Winter League games were all played at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, Arizona. The league was founded in 2007. It disbanded in 2013 due to parent league, th ...
, a former instructional baseball league
* The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City
* Statement List (German: ''Anweisungsliste'' (AWL)), an
instruction list
Instruction list (IL) is one of the 5 languages supported by the initial versions of IEC 61131-3 standard, and subsequently deprecated in the third edition.
It is designed for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It is a low level language and ...
language of Siemens
*
Alas Nacionales
Alas Nacionales S.A. ("National Wings" in Spanish) was a Puerto Plata-based carrier that operated charter flights between Dominican Republic and Germany. The airline served as a representative of Birgenair.Pope, Hugh and Phil Davison.Crash plane ...
, a former airline, ICAO airline code AWL
See also
*
Owl (disambiguation)
An owl is a bird of prey.
Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional entities
* Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters
* Owl (''Winnie the Pooh'')
* Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude ...
* Aul, a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia
* ''
Ahlspiess
The ahlspiess (or awl pike) was a thrusting spear developed and used primarily in Germany and Austria from the 15th to 16th centuries. The ahlspiess consisted of a long thin spike of square cross section measuring up to about a metre (39 inches) ...
'' or awl pike, a 15th–16th century thrusting spear
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