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bodkined

bodkined adjective: fastened with a bodkin.

Adjective

bodkined (not comparable)

  1. Fastened with a bodkin.
    • These maidens, with their golden-bodkined hair, were enchanted when they found that I had come from England; for at first they had taken me for a Frenchwoman.1853, Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany
    • Dressed in their best quilted tunics and cloth pantaloons, with hair oiled, mounted and bodkined precisely as worn by their ancestors two thousand years ago, toes thrust in paper-soled blue slippers […]1875, Woman's Work for Woman: A Union Magazine, volume 5, page 147

Origin of bodkined

From bodkin + -ed.

Questions about bodkined

What does bodkined mean?
Bodkined means fastened with a bodkin.
What part of speech is bodkined?
Bodkined is an adjective.

Words near bodkined in the dictionary

  1. Bodio
  2. Bodis
  3. Bodish
  4. bodkin
  5. bodkine
  6. bodkined
  7. bodkins
  8. Bodkinses
  9. bodkinwise
  10. bodle
  11. Bodleian

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