Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
- noun A cutting edge; a blade.
- intransitive verb To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
- intransitive verb Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
- intransitive verb To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife.
- idiom (under the knife) Undergoing surgery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cutting-instrument consisting of a comparatively short blade and a handle, adapted for easy use with the hand.
- noun In a wider sense, any small cutting-tool, or any part of a tool or machine having a sharp edge for cutting or scraping: as, the knives of a mowing-machine, printing-press, meat-chopper, straw-cutter, etc.
- noun A sword or cutlas; a long cutting-weapon.
- noun A saddlers' cutting-tool with a sharp convex edge.
- To stab or kill with a knife.
- To endeavor to defeat in a secret or underhand way in an election, as a candidate of one's own party. [Political slang, U.S.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses.
- noun A sword or dagger.
- noun (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (
Scleria latifolia ), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. - noun mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.
- transitive verb (Hort.) To prune with the knife.
- transitive verb Low To cut or stab with a knife.
- transitive verb Slang, U. S. Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
utensil or atool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (theblade ), usuallysharpened on one edge, attached to ahandle . The blade may be pointed for piercing. - noun A
weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended forslashing and/orstabbing and too short to be called asword . Adagger . - noun Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a
chipper . - verb transitive To cut with a knife.
- verb transitive To use a knife to
injure orkill bystabbing ,slashing , or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as aweapon . - verb intransitive To cut through as if with a knife.
- verb transitive To
betray , especially in the context of apolitical slate . - verb transitive To positively
ignore , especially in order todenigrate . comparecut
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- noun any long thin projection that is transient
- noun a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- verb use a knife on
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_!
The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch
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A man with a knife is approaching a woman with her baby.
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If you don't have a gun, then a knife is the best survival tool.
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For general purposes, a knife is a knife is a knife. hmphargh
Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Also – the knife is a pocketknife with a folding blade.
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A sharp knife is key, but for all this said, unless you have a true appreciation for materials, need a survival knife, need resistance to salt water, or need a knife that will cut long before sharpening, it is hard to go wrong when you buy a good brand name knife and diamond sharpening stones.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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If you don't have a gun, then a knife is the best survival tool.
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A sharp knife is key, but for all this said, unless you have a true appreciation for materials, need a survival knife, need resistance to salt water, or need a knife that will cut long before sharpening, it is hard to go wrong when you buy a good brand name knife and diamond sharpening stones.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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Rifles get banged and grimey but my knife is always the first thing that gets cleaned when I get home from the woods.
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TAYLOR: I had just completed a game of what they called knife or life.
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Growing up, this was a common enough occurrence that our family had a poop knife. It was an old rusty kitchen knife that hung on a nail in the laundry room, only to be used for that purpose. It was normal to walk through the hallway and have someone call out "hey, can you get me the poop knife"?
The poop knife UnholyDemigod 2024
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If your plumbing stinks or if your dung just ain't dainty, you need to separate it into chunks for it to wash down the commode. But how? Just grab your fecal cleaver… you know, your dung divider... your guano glaive. To put it less delicately, cut the 💩 with your Poop Knife.
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