bodkin• On her head she wore a green felt hat, with a pinstuck through it like a bodkin.• Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correctslot.• The bodkintrick should have been completed beforehand to make the sleeveready.
Originbodkin
(1300-1400) Perhaps from Welshbidog or Scottish Gaelicbiodag“knife used as a weapon”