• mordant pain, pull, stab, stitch, twinge

• smart pain in the side

• stitch in the side

• barbed, hirsute, intent, prickly, stinging, stingy, stubbly

• plunging siphon

• jet lance

• drift

• stinger

• stinger

• gimlet eyes

• sidearms

• smart

• cutting glance

• dig, fling

• cold steel

• to pierce

• pricker

• butcher-bird