bodkin vs poniard

bodkin

noun
  • A dagger. 

  • A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing. 

  • A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather. 

  • A type of long thin arrowhead. 

  • A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections. 

  • A hairpin. 

adv
  • Closely wedged between two people. 

poniard

noun
  • A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. 

verb
  • To stab with a poniard. 

How often have the words bodkin and poniard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )