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Awl @ an instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of boring the ear of a slave kjv@Exodus:21:6; kjv@Deuteronomy:15:17), in token of his volunteering perpetual service when he might be free. (Comp. kjv@Psalms:40:6; kjv@Isaiah:50:5).