Bodkin: Also called ballpoints, this is a long, thick needle with a ballpoint end and a large, elongated eye.

Later they are shifted to "quarantine," where each is photographed, X-rayed and subjected to painful blood tests with a thick needle.

The ground was covered in a drift of pine needles, thick and soft beneath our feet; the branches overhead formed a fair roof.

Its fangs were like thick needles and the pain was awful when he tried to pull the huge rodent away.

I saw a pair of long, thick needles, tangled in what looked like a ruined sweater.

Jaxom idly stripped a branch of its thick needles and launched them one after another into the incoming ripples.

Like a thick needle jammed in my shoulder.

A specialist would perforate the lip with a thick wooden needle.

European writers tell of it being traded as thick needles, shovel-like pieces and rectangular bars.