Awl
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An awl is a long pointed spike. It may be a:
Awl or AWL may also refer to:
- BradawlBradawlA bradawl is a tool with a blade similar to that of a straight screwdriver and a handle made from wood or plastic. A bradawl is used to make an indentation in wood or other materials in order to ease the insertion of a nail or screw...
, a tool for making holes in wood - Scratch awlScratch awlA scratch awl is a woodworking layout and point-making tool. It is used to scribe a line to be followed by a hand saw or chisel when making woodworking joints and other operations....
, a tool used for marking wood. - Stitching awlStitching awlA stitching awl is a simple 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 sharp point, either straight or slightly bent....
, a tool for piercing holes in leather
Awl or AWL may also refer to:
- AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
- Absence Without Leave
- Academic word listAcademic word listThe Academic Word List was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 semantic fields which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts...
- Aircraft Warning Light
- Alliance for Workers' LibertyAlliance for Workers' LibertyThe Alliance for Workers' Liberty , also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Trotskyist group in Britain. The group has a complex history but has always been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna...
, a Trotskyist group in Britain - Arizona Winter LeagueArizona Winter LeagueThe Arizona Winter League is the short-season instructional independent winter professional baseball league affiliated with the independent North American League...
- Awl butterflies, the genus HasoraHasoraHasora, the awls, are a genus of skipper butterflies.-Species:* Hasora alta de Jong, 1982* Hasora anura - Slate Awl** Hasora anura taiwana Hsu, Tsukiyama & Chiba, 2005* Hasora badra - Common Awl...
and some other members of the skipper butterfly subfamily CoeliadinaeCoeliadinaeCoeliadinae is a subfamily of the skipper butterfly family . With about 150 described species, this is one of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies. It was first proposed by William Frederick Evans in 1937.... - Awl-flies, the true fly family Xylophagidae
- The AwlThe AwlThe Awl is a website about current events and culture. The site was founded in 2008 by David Cho and former Gawker editors Choire Sicha and Alex Balk.The site employs an editorial staff of writers....
, a current events and culture website - Anweisungsliste (a.k.a. Statement List), instruction listInstruction listInstruction List is one of the 5 languages supported by the IEC 61131-3 standard. It is designed for programmable logic controllers . It is a low level language and resembles assembly. All of the languages share IEC61131 Common Elements...
programming language for SiemensSiemensSiemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
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