Awl may refer to: ==Tools==

• 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