Awl may refer to:

==Tools==<!-- main meaning hence off-alphabet-->

  • 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
  • Alaska Wilderness League, a U.S. nonprofit organization
  • 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