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• n  a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes

• In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in .
• It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime.
• Alfred Jarry was the kind of humorist for whom laughter was a rictus; he dug for the cheek nerves with an awl.

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