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	SignOnSanDiego > Weblogs > The Bare Bodkin
		Taken as a whole, the Bodkin, it seems to me, is essentially Cory’s rambunctious public journal — a consecutive record of forgivably egomaniacal observations that are as integrated as they are scattered, thereby accurately reflecting the strange mind caught in the act of composing them.
		The Bodkin is so embarrassingly cluttered with dancing advertisements and belligerent pop-ups that I can barely stand to see my words posted amid such garish schlock, even if that schlock does pay for the privilege of seeing my words posted at all.
		Of course I understand if the Bodkin must be relegated to the archives and stripped of its interactive features to make way for current offerings, but so long as I can send people a URL that will make these words rise up on their screens, I’ll be likely to do that with egocentric frequency.
	weblog.signonsandiego.com /weblogs/thebarebodkin (8137 words)

	Bodkin point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In its simplest form it is an uncomplicated squared metal spike, and was used extensively during the Middle Ages as a means of penetrating mail armour.
		Whatever the case, it was determined on the Medieval battlefield that a bodkin point could penetrate armour more effectively than a broadhead point.
		The ability of the bodkin to penetrate armour was nonetheless limited by the skill and strength of the archer, and it could only defeat high-quality plate armour at short ranges, if at all.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bodkin_point (488 words)

	What People Are Saying About Odds Bodkin
		The freshmen can't wait to begin reading the text itself, the sophomores are so pleased with themselves for having read such a cool poem, and the juniors are tickled to have had their memories of it revived in such a unique way.
		Odds Bodkin struck the imaginations of my children like a lightning bolt flung by one of the gods he tells abut in his Homeric epics.
		Bodkin was the contemporary personification of all those that have come before him.
	www.oddsbodkin.com /what_people_say.html (2128 words)

	Fletching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bodkin point, as shown in the far left of the image below was for punching though armour by reducing the contact area of the head and increasing the probability of penetration.
		These point types were not as effective for hunting as the small impact area did not do widespread damage to the target, such as severing veins, arteries or vital organs on the way.
		Bodkin points are a reasonable target arrow to use on modern archery butts.
	www.sca.org.au /riverhaven/fletching.htm (4877 words)

	Bodkin
		The Lighthouses were to be located on Bodkin Point (also called Bodkin Island at the time) at the southern part of the river entrance, North Point on the north side of the river entrance and Sparrows Point on the north side and to the west of North Point.
		James Stewart, the owner of Sparrows Point, was unwilling to sell to any of his land and after several attempts to change his mind it was decided to build both of the range lights on North Point.
		Four acres of land was purchased on Bodkin Point from Richard Caton for $600.00 and six acres of land on North Point was bought from Dr. Todd for $562.00.
	www.rickslighthouses.com /bodkin.htm (897 words)

	Arrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bodkin points are short, rigid points with a small cross-section.
		Points attached with caps are simply slid snugly over the end of the shaft.
		They are designed to keep the arrow pointed in the direction of travel by strongly damping down any tendency to pitch or yaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arrow_(weapon) (718 words)

	Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society - Our Lighthouse Heritage - Bodkin Island Light
		First established in 1822 (discontinued in 1855) the Bodkin Island Lighthouse would have been visible from the North Overlook in the distance.
		Bodkin Point Light was constructed to aid shipping traffic to Baltimore.
		Sevenfoot Knoll, lighted in 1856, replaced Bodkin Island Light, which was plagued by poor construction.
	www.cheslights.org /heritage/bodkin.htm (166 words)

	Arrows vs armour - NetSword Discussion Forums
		Bodkins would be employed inside 100-120 yrds, in a less drastic arc of fire - but they weren't humming in at a flat trajectory.
		I can't comment as to wether the bodkin was in use at Cressy, but if barbed broadheads were used in their place, they would have had a similar range and stripe, if not an exact armour penetrating capability - only flight arrows would reach out to the extreme range of the bow.
		The point I would like to address is the statement that "due to the particular qualities of chainmail, an arrow that will pass through a suit of mail hung up on a rod will not penetrate a suit of mail worn by a man with the proper padding beneath".
	netsword.com /ubb/Forum8/HTML/000015.html (9362 words)

	Solstice Perigee Moonpaddle
		At one point, spying a sandy beach behind the breakwater of a million dollar house we beached the boats to stretch our legs.
		When we reached a point where there was no more creek to paddle up reality at last began to sink in - despite being led by a superb night navigator we must have passed the take out cove somehow.
		Eventually we rounded a point and could see, off in the distance, the bay at the mouth of Bodkin Creek from where we had started hours ago.
	www.getlostmagazine.com /features/2000/0001newyear/moonpaddle.html (718 words)

	bodkin - definition by dict.die.net
		bodkin n 1: a dagger with a slender blade [syn: poniard] 2: formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head 3: a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric 4: a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: threader]
		A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.
		To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons.
	dict.die.net /bodkin (147 words)

	Cruising Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Fells Point
		On its north shore (North Point), the entrance is graced by a large brick structure which is the Ft. Howard Veterans Administration Hospital.
		A recent publication about Baltimore refers to these tributaries as "The Pleasure Creeks," and they're certainly that, for their shores are lined with the summer and/or year-round homes, condos, marinas, and yacht clubs of many of the water lovers, fishermen and crabbers, and boating fanatics of the Greater Baltimore area.
		Its entrance lies through the notorious Bodkin Point (which shoals to both north and east) but is well marked and maintained and requires only a slow approach and an eye on the depth sounder for safe passage.
	www.blugoose.com /outerharbor.html (2139 words)

	5 SLIM SAXON HUNTING HEADS Medieval Archery Bow
		Platemail was effective at preventing penetration, as even if the point penetrated, the cutting edges of the arrowhead had to open a very large rend in the plate before the more giving flesh beneath was even cut, let alone the arrowhead penetrated the inch or so required for a dangerous wound.
		Plate mail was especially vulnerable to bodkin arrows, since the heavy square point punched quickly through the plate, then tapered, allowing the remaining energy of the shot to be delivered to the flesh of the soldier without needing to further widen the rend in the plate to achieve a fatal wounding depth.
		The bodkin arrow would gradually lose its place in the battle fields to the increasing popularity of early firearms, even though it was much more precise and lethal than those, a precision that would be recovered only with the advent of the rifle centuries later.
	www.aboutassembly.com /5-SLIM-SAXON-HUNTING,i160065501187,c383.html (1092 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Archery
		The advent of the bodkin point allowed arrows to pierce most armour.
		To load, the bow is pointed toward the ground and the shaft of the arrow is placed on an arrow rest attached to the bow.
		This point is consistent from shot to shot, and is usually at the corner of the mouth or on the chin.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Archery.shtml (3755 words)

	Maryland Light Stations
		GREENBURY POINT LIGHT; No. 4289; "Greenbury Point Light; Annapolis Harbor; The towers in the distance are those of the U.S. Naval Academy Radio Station"; December, 1925; photographer unknown.
		During the Civil War the point was host first to a sprawling military hospital and, after 1863, to a Union prisoner of war camp.
		This light took over the role formerly handled by the Bodkin Island Light and the latter was decommissioned soon afterwards.The original octagonal cottage, built in 1855, was replaced somewhere around 1875 with the current cylindrical structure.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/weblighthouses/lhmd.html (12296 words)

	Downs Park History
		The Neck is bounded by Chesapeake Bay to the East, the Patapsco River to the North, and Bodkin Creek to the West.
		Bodkin Neck was in 1850 considered for the strategic location of a fort, as being valuable to the defense of Sparrows Point.
		With 2000 ft. of Chesapeake Bay beachfront, 150 acres of woods and fields and a quiet cove on Bodkin Creek to dock his 60 ft. yacht, "The Tonkaway," Rocky Beach Farm was indeed the perfect location to build a summer estate, and Mr.
	www.aacounty.org /RecParks/Parks/downs_park/history.cfm (4069 words)

	Arrowheads (Ernie Leimkuhler; Lou Boyd; Robert Bastow; Tom Holt)
		The hard way to make these deadly bodkins, is to first forge the long square point from 3/8" or 7/16" square stock, and form the narrower, rounded neck behind it, then cut off with a hot hardie, leaving a stub about 1/2" long.
		The bodkin was case hardened so as to retain the tremendous core strength, required to resist the bending forces involved in penetrating after an off square hit.
		Bodkins for mail or armour at shorter ranges, broad heads or forked "rippers" at longer distance against horses..the objective being to cause pain, blood, disruption and terror among the horses..much more effective than actually killing the horse or rider!
	yarchive.net /metal/arrowheads.html (6034 words)

	Siska Inc. - Eyelet and Grommet Setting Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		PIERCE POINT: This setting die has a sharp point that is used to pierce loosely woven fabrics.
		BODKIN POINT: This setting die is also used to cut material.
		On the first stroke of the machine the flat pointed bottom die meets with the top die cutting the material.
	www.siska.com /dies.htm (521 words)

	Brass & Sterling Silver Bodkins from Wooded Hamlet Designs
		Detachable, laced parts of outfits, like the sleeves of sleeveless waistcoats, could afford the wearer a variety of ensembles or a change with the weather, without having to buy or make more clothing.
		The blunt end bodkin, precursor to the needle, was essential for this.
		Our handmade sterling bodkin with rigelled engraving down to the rounded tip is flat to fit the most narrow pocket, and has two holes: one small round hole for lacing with a cord or thread; and a slit for lacing with a ribbon.
	www.woodedhamlet.com /needlework_tools/bodkins.html (160 words)

	myArmoury.com - How does a full plate armour react to a arrow from a longbow
		Neither one could penetrate a breast plate head on, but the plate bodkin was good at finding gaps for some reason...the mail bodkin was supposed to hit the middle of a ring of mail and split it open, or go through far enough to wound the victim.
		Depending on the weave of the mail the point of the arrow would have to be almost needle like to penetrate some.
		The point of all this is to say the longbow is extremely effective against fully armoured knights-- just not in the way everyone might imagine.
	www.myarmoury.com /talk/viewtopic.php?p=8837 (3204 words)

	Prym Consumer USA Inc.
		BIAS TUBING - Insert ball point of bodkin in closed end of tubing.
		Push bodkin through center of tubing, gradually turning tubing to inside.
		Slide bodkin (ball point end first) through casing, stitch ends of elastic to secure.
	www.dritz.com /brands/showcase/details.php?ITEM_NUM=783 (86 words)

	The Medieval English Longbow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The famed bodkin point, unlike the broadhead, was reserved strictly for war.
		But as Morris and Oman pointed out, the catalysis for the use of the longbow was found in Wales.
		A final argument supporting the Scandinavian origins of the longbow comes from Dr. Lynn White, Jr., noted medievalist, who writes that in old Irish there are two words for bow: one is for a short bow, and its root is Celtic; the other is for a longbow, and its root is Norse.
	margo.student.utwente.nl /sagi/artikel/longbow/longbow2.html (1339 words)

	The Washington Times: Metropolitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ANNAPOLIS — While British troops were attacking Washington on Aug. 24, 1814, a minor skirmish in the War of 1812 was taking place at Bodkin Point near the mouth of the Patapsco River, south of Baltimore.
		Nielsen said proof that a skirmish took place in Bodkin Creek could place added importance on Hancock's Resolution, a small rock farmhouse built in the 1700s that is preserved as part of the Anne Arundel County park system.
		Hancock's Resolution fronts Bodkin Creek near the potential site of the sinking of the Lion by the Menelaus, a 36-gun frigate used by the British to blockade the port of Baltimore.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20030517-094440-5114r.htm (570 words)

	TherionArms - Landsknecht katzbalger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Like all pikemen of the period, the Landsknechts carried a shorter sidearm which in their case was called a kaltzbalger.
		This sword includes in the scabbard a small knife and a bodkin point tool for various utilitarian purposes, including eating and loosening knotted rope.
		The blade is of high carbon steel, as are the knife and bodkin.
	therionarms.com /reenact/therionarms_c771.html (187 words)

	ARCHERS ARCHERY BOWS AND ARROWS JACQUI WALTON
		To load, the bow is pointed toward the ground and the shaft of the arrow is placed on an arrow rest which is attached in the bow window.
		This attaches to the bowstring at the nocking point and permits the archer to release the string by pulling a trigger.
		In the Finsbury Mark the scoring system is 20 for hitting the mark, 12 for within ~3ft, 7 points for within the next ~6ft and 3 points for within the next ~9ft.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/archery.htm (4578 words)

	From duel to fencing - Page 4 - Fencing.Net Discussion
		The bodkin point was known as early as the 4th century AD, and probably earlier.
		Worsfield further demonstrates his ignorance of medieval swords by stating, “ Up until this point almost all swords were heavy and required more strength than skill to maneuver.” Apparently 2.5 lbs is too heavy for this guy.
		Worsfield solidifies his lack of insight into the nature of real weapons and armor with this statement: “The controlled bio-mechanical finger manipulation of the point as required in modern sport fencing would be impossible given these restrictions.” First off, I really don’t know what he is trying to say by using the word “bio-mechanical”.
	www.fencing.net /forums/thread23337-4.html (2986 words)

	The Pension Application of Aquilla Roby of Lewis County, Virginia
		There sometime then marched down to North Point on the North side of Patapsco here he continued till in September the time for which he had volunteered having expired and the enemy being still in the bay he again forthwith volunteered for another term of three months under his same officers.
		He was kept at North Point and once up to Baltimore till his last time of engagement had expired when late in December he was discharged having served this year of 1777 full nine months as a private in the Maryland Militia.
		The same Col. Campbell still continued here at Point Look out he was continued without any particular occurrence till late in December 1778 when he was discharged having this year served full nine months in three continuous engagements of 3 months each as a private, a volunteer in the Maryland Militia.
	www.swcp.com /~dhickman/journals/V6I2/robypension.html (851 words)

	Riverside Ladies Golf Association holds annual championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		MASON, W.Va. - The Riverside Ladies Golf Association held its annual championship Saturday and Sunday with Diana Bodkin of Point Pleasant and Norma Stanley of Mason taking top honors.
		Bodkin took the low gross honors with scores of 84-86 for 170 during the event to defeat Darlene Sisk of New Haven by three shots with her total of 173.
		Stanley turned the handicap or net portion of the tournament into a runaway with her net scores of 61-61 for 122 to better the runner-up, Jo MacKnight, by 15 shots with her score of 137.
	www.mydailytribune.com /articles/2006/07/25/news/sports/sports01.txt (202 words)

	14th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Arrows were carved from a variety of woods, with feathers being glued on then wrapped tight with thread.
		The arrows were fitted with a variety of arrowheads, but no other was as effective as the long, armor-piercing bodkin point.
		Bowstrings were woven from hemp, and the archer usually carried a spare string under his helm or cap.
	www.scarletcompany.org /14th.htm (601 words)

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