Bodkin
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Bodkin may refer to:
  • One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway
    Tribes of Galway
    The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late-19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan,...

  • Bodkin point
    Bodkin point
    A bodkin point is a type of arrowhead. In its simplest form it is an uncomplicated squared metal spike, and was used extensively during the Middle Ages. The typical bodkin was a square-section arrowhead, generally up to 4½" long and ⅜" thick at its widest point, tapered down behind this initial...

    , a type of arrowhead
  • Bodkin needle
    Sewing needle
    A sewing needle is a long slender tool with a pointed tip. The first needles were made of bone or wood; modern ones are manufactured from high carbon steel wire, nickel- or 18K gold plated for corrosion resistance. The highest quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and...

    , a blunt slender instrument with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon through a loop or hem.

People

  • Edward Bodkin
    Edward Bodkin
    Edward Bodkin is an American cutter who was arrested in 1998 after police were tipped off that he was performing and videotaping voluntary human castrations at his home....

    , an American cutter
  • Matt Bodkin
    Matt Bodkin
    Matthew James "Matt" Bodkin is an English footballer, who plays as a winger for Margate.-Career:Bodkin began his career as a trainee with Nottingham Forest, turning professional in May 2003. He failed to make the first team with Forest and was released in May 2004...

     (born 1968), an English football player
  • Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
    Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
    Matthias McDonnell Bodkin was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Anti-Parnellite representative for North Roscommon, 1892–95, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, and barrister, King’s Counsel and...

     (1850-1933), an Irish MP, author, journalist, newspaper editor, barrister (K.C.) and judge
  • Maud Bodkin
    Maud Bodkin
    Amy Maud Bodkin was a British classical scholar, writer on mythology, and literary critic. She is best known for her 1934 book Archetypal Patterns in Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination...

     (1875-1967), a British classical scholar
  • Odds Bodkin
    Odds Bodkin
    Odds Bodkin , is the pseudonym of an American storyteller and musician based in New Hampshire who has published a number of spoken and/or musical interpretations of traditional tales, as well as a number of original tales. His version of "Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire" was awarded the...

     (born 1953), an American storyteller
  • Tom Bodkin
    Tom Bodkin
    Tom Bodkin is the Design Director at The New York Times. Bodkin, who hails from Great Neck, New York, graduated from John L. Miller Great Neck North High School in 1971. Editor-and-chief of the award winning school newspaper "Guide Post," started at the NYtimes 30 years ago, began his career as an...

    , an American newspaper designer
  • Monty Bodkin
    Monty Bodkin
    Montague "Monty" Bodkin is a recurring fictional character in three novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a wealthy young member of the Drones Club, tall, slender and lissom, well-dressed, well-spoken, impeccably polite, and generally in some kind of romantic trouble.-Stories:Monty...

    , a fictional character in novels of P. G. Wodehouse
  • John Bodkin Adams
    John Bodkin Adams
    John Bodkin Adams was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between the years 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances. Of these, 132 left him money or items in their will. He was tried and acquitted for...

    (1899-1983), a British doctor and suspected serial killer
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