The normal use of a bradawl is to make small indentations in wood in preparation for insertion of brads or screws, although it may be used for a variety of tasks requiring a sharp point.    From LearnThat.org.  [wikipedia]

“The bradawl is a lock pick, I guess,” Beck said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

I knelt down and used the bradawl on the tumblers again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

I slid the bradawl along the floor, tight against the boards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

Then he put the bent bradawl next to them, and the sharpened chisel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

‘I wish I wos behind him vith a bradawl,’ muttered the long one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

Found the dip in the rock and wrapped the chisel and the bradawl in the rag and left them there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

The body wire (having no loops) can be pushed in at the head through a hole previously made with a bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Necessity, which is the mother of invention, made them deft and handy with axe and adze, bradawl and waxed end, anvil and forge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

The surface of the glass will shortly be ground away, and then the file bradawl will make much quicker progress than might be expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

I may chance to require a bradawl as I did last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference

Cosmo took a fine bradawl, and pushed it gently into the hoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

But he read in the papers that story of a bradawl found in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

'I wish I wos behind him vith a bradawl,' muttered the long one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

He waved his hand deprecatingly, the bradawl used for his work in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Land] Reference

The manager started as if some firm hand had driven a bradawl into him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psmith in the City] Reference

The magistrate wanted me to explain the presence of that bradawl in the Rue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

I'm very well aware that my affair's clear enough as they've found that bradawl and know me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

Through the balancing point G a bradawl is stuck, and on that as pivot the whole readily revolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

They went out and bought a one-inch auger and a three-sixteenths bradawl, a thick footstool and a satchel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit Prop Syndicate] Reference

For a whole week the press had been busy with the bradawl found under the entrance of the Duvillard mansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

The bone is easily penetrated by a bradawl, and if an attempt is made to apply plates, the screws fail to bite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Then he told Madame Theodore the story of the bradawl, and the idea which had occurred to him and all his mates that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

It is a bradawl, and its handle bears the name of Grandidier, which is that of a man who keeps some well-known metal works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

"Then tell me, Gustavus, have you ever lived in service with a gentleman who was partial to a bradawl -- of a night, you understand?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference

Then by a sudden impulse he picked the coin up, and opening a toolbox which he kept in the room, he took from it a hammer and bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference

You’ll find it in the tool-chest, with my bit of leather apron and the bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising of the Moon]

The spare magazines were gone, Doll’s keys were gone, the bradawl was gone, and the chisel was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

Left the Glock and the spare magazines and Doll’s set of keys hidden with the PSM and the chisel and the bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

I found a bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

I put the bradawl on the floor in front of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

By the way, here is the bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference

"I was looking for -- for a bradawl.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference

A bradawl is sometimes called a nail-piercer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

I use a bradawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Life] Reference

bradawl or styles metal brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference