Word Meanings - KNIVES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of Knife. See Knife.

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• KNIFE SWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
• KNIFE
  1. 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; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife,
• KNIFEBOARD
  A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of
• CASE KNIFE
  1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. 2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
• BOWIE KNIFE
  A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
• DRAWING KNIFE; DRAWKNIFE
  A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. (more info) 1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing
• PENKNIFE
  A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• JACKKNIFE
  A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
• SPALDING KNIFE
  A spalting knife.