Two holes should then be bored with a bradawl near the front edge of this run, opposite middle hole to F, to receive ends of ladder, which will be described hereafter.
He perceived in a very prominent position upon a silver salver, the bradawl laid out, according to order, by the obedient Mr. Ferdinand.
I may chance to require a bradawlas I did last night.
The three men, like their employer, were speaking of the explosion at the Duvillard mansion, of the bradawl found there, and of Salvat, whom they all now suspected.
For a whole week the press had been busy with the bradawlfound under the entrance of the Duvillard mansion.
But he read in the papers that story of a bradawl found in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, and it made him anxious, because the police may make a perquisition here.
I'm very well aware that my affair's clear enough as they've found that bradawl and know me.
The magistrate wanted me to explain the presence of that bradawl in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, and I at once realised that, in his opinion, the culprit must have worked here.
Place the broken end of the file against the glass, and with considerable pressure begin to rotate it (the file) backwards and forwards with the fingers, very much as one would operate a bradawl against a hard piece of wood.
The surface of the glass will shortly be ground away, and then the file bradawl will make much quicker progress than might be expected.
It would be hard to imagine anything more curious than this little carpenter, as she stands upright and brings her nasal bradawl down towards her body.
This is repeated over and over again; the movement, in short, is identical with that we give to a bradawl when boring a hole in a plank.
A common bradawl will not answer the purpose so well as a triangular one, as the sharp edges of the latter break the match and priming, and insure the ignition.
Make a bradawl hole in the middle of one side; fasten to it a squib, without a bang, having a piece of quickmatch at the end, to enter the hole.
Push this triangular bradawl up the bottom of the lance, then fix the lance on the wire destined to receive it; it will be more secure if the wire is touched with a dip of glue before pressing the lance on.
When dry, make a bradawl hole through one part, to reach the powder.
If a top and receiver cannot be readily purchased, both may easily be constructed out of a sheet of millboard, fastened with a bradawl and waxed yellow flax, and neatly covered with paper.
The legitimate purpose of the bradawl is to bore holes in wood so as to ensure the passage of a nail or screw in the right direction, and to facilitate its entrance into the wood.
The hole must be made in the wood with a brace and bit (a bradawl will make the hole in cardboard, and it can be filed to the right size with a round file).
Make holes with a fine bradawl and insert two pieces of bent wire at a and b.
Holes can be made in the centre with a bradawl and enlarged with a round file.
Generally in nailing holes should first be made for the nail with a fine bradawl or drill.
This is useful for making small holes when there is danger of the wood splitting, however when once this drill is used, the worker never again feels inclined to use a bradawl or any other kind of boring tool.
Two small holes should be made with the little bradawl in the proper direction, and the hammer must do the rest.
Then at one end a hole was made, into which a large brass-headed nail was thrust, while through the other end a sharp-pointed bradawl was bored, so as to leave its sharp point sticking out a quarter of an inch on the other side.
All this was done, and Tom descended to find that both the rod and the sheet of zinc had been carried in, the latter laid on the bench, and displaying a curve deeply scratched upon it where the sharp-pointed bradawl had been drawn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bradawl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buffer; instrument; lathe; point; tool
