Awl

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
 * 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