# Awl

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Look up ***[awl](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/awl)*** or ***[-awl](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-awl)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

**Awl** may refer to:

## Tools

- [Bradawl](/source/Bradawl), a woodworking hand tool for making small holes

- [Scratch awl](/source/Scratch_awl), a woodworking layout and point-making tool used to scribe a line

- [Stitching awl](/source/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](/source/Hesperiidae)* - Awls, genus *[Hasora](/source/Hasora)*

- Awl-flies, family [Xylophagidae](/source/Xylophagidae)

- Awl nematode, or genus *[Dolichodorus](/source/Dolichodorus)*

## People

- [Aime M. Awl](/source/Aime_M._Awl) (1887–1973), American scientific illustrator

- [Farah Awl](/source/Farah_Awl) (1937–1991), Somali writer

- [William Maclay Awl](/source/William_Maclay_Awl) (1799–1876), American psychiatrist and politician

## Other uses

- [AA-4 'Awl'](/source/AA-4_'Awl'), the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile

- [Academic Word List](/source/Academic_Word_List), a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts

- [Alaska Wilderness League](/source/Alaska_Wilderness_League), a U.S. nonprofit organization

- [Alliance for Workers' Liberty](/source/Alliance_for_Workers'_Liberty), a Trotskyist group in Britain

- [Arizona Winter League](/source/Arizona_Winter_League), a former instructional baseball league

- [The Awl](/source/The_Awl), a current events and culture website in New York City

- Statement List (German: *Anweisungsliste* (AWL)), an [instruction list](/source/Instruction_list) language of Siemens

- [Alas Nacionales](/source/Alas_Nacionales), a former airline, ICAO airline code AWL

## See also

- [All pages with titles beginning with *Awl*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Awl)

- [All pages with titles containing *Awl*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/intitle:%22Awl%22)

- [Owl (disambiguation)](/source/Owl_(disambiguation))

- [Aul](/source/Aul), a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Central Asia

- *[Ahlspiess](/source/Ahlspiess)* or awl pike, a 15th–16th century thrusting spear

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