Awl Explained

Awl may refer to:

Tools

• Bradawl, a woodworking hand tool for making small holes
• Scratch awl, a woodworking layout and point-making tool used to scribe a line
• Stitching awl, a tool for piercing holes in a variety of materials such as leather or canvases

Biology

• Butterfly species called "awl", of the family Hesperiidae
  • Awls, genus Hasora
• Awl-flies, family Xylophagidae
• Awl nematode, or genus Dolichodorus

People

• Aime M. Awl (1887–1973), American scientific illustrator
• Farah Awl (1937–1991), Somali writer
• William Maclay Awl (1799–1876), American psychiatrist and politician

Other uses

• AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
• Academic Word List, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts
• Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
• Arizona Winter League, a former instructional baseball league
• The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City
• Statement List (German: Anweisungsliste (AWL)), an instruction list language of Siemens
• Alas Nacionales, a former airline, ICAO airline code AWL

See also

• Owl (disambiguation)
• Aul, a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia
• Ahlspiess or awl pike, a 15th–16th century thrusting spear