Awl may refer to:
Tools
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Bradawl
A bradawl is a woodworking hand tool with a blade similar to that of a straight screwdriver and a handle typically made from wood or plastic. An wiktionary:awl, awl is any kind of small pointed tool.
Purpose
A bradawl is used to make indentations ...
, a woodworking hand tool for making small holes
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Scratch awl, a woodworking layout and point-making tool used to scribe a line
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Stitching awl
A stitching awl is a tool with which holes can be punctured in a variety of materials, or existing holes can be enlarged. It is also used for sewing heavy materials, such as leather or canvas. It is a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a shar ...
, a tool for piercing holes in a variety of materials such as
leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning (leather), tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffal ...
or canvases
Biology
* Butterfly species called "awl", of the family ''
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...
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**Awls, genus ''
Hasora''
* Awl-flies, family
Xylophagidae
*Awl nematode, or genus ''
Dolichodorus''
People
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Aime M. Awl (1887–1973), American scientific illustrator
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Farah Awl (1937–1991), Somali writer
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William Maclay Awl (1799–1876), American psychiatrist and politician
Other uses
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AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
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Academic Word List, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts
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Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
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Arizona Winter League, a former instructional baseball league
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The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City
* Statement List (German: ''Anweisungsliste'' (AWL)), an
instruction list language of Siemens
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Alas Nacionales, a former airline, ICAO airline code AWL
See also
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Owl (disambiguation)
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Aul, a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia
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Ahlspiess'' or awl pike, a 15th–16th century thrusting spear
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