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Awl

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Awl may refer to:

Tools

  • 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

People

  • Farah Awl (1937–1991), a Somali writer
  • William Maclay Awl (1799–1876), an American psychiatrist and politician

Other uses

  • AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
  • Academic Word List, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts
  • Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
  • Arizona Winter League, a former instructional baseball league
  • Awl butterflies, genus Hasora
  • Awl-flies, family Xylophagidae
  • The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City
  • Statement List (German: Anweisungsliste (AWL)), an instruction list language of Siemens
  • Alas Nacionales, a former airline, ICAO airline code AWL

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Awl
  • All pages with titles containing Awl
  • Owl (disambiguation)
  • Aul, a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia
  • Ahlspiess or awl pike, a 15th–16th century thrusting spear
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