different between arrowhead vs bodkin

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

arrow +? head

Noun

arrowhead (plural arrowheads)

1. (weapon) The pointed part of an arrow.
2. (symbol) The pointed part of an arrow.
3. Any plant in the genus Sagittaria.

Synonyms

• (Sagittaria): duck potato, wapato

Translations

See also

• elf arrow
• leaf-arrowhead

English

Alternative forms

• bodikin, bodkine, botkin, boidken

Etymology

From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?dk?n/

Noun

bodkin (plural bodkins)

1. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
2. A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
3. A hairpin.
4. A dagger.
   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Ship of Death:

     And can a man his own quietus make / with a bare bodkin? / With daggers, bodkins, bullets, man can make / a bruise or break of exit for his life; / but is that a quietus, O tell me, is it quietus?

5. A type of long thin arrowhead.
6. (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.

Translations

Adverb

bodkin (not comparable)

1. Closely wedged between two people.
   • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. page 343.

     He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.

Further reading

• bodkin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobkin