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Definition of knife

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Knife (n.) 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, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc...

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Cut :: Cut (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well..

Knife :: Knife (v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.

Knifed :: Knifed (imp. & p. p.) of Knif.

Thwittle :: Thwittle (n.) A small knife; a whittle.

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Thy :: Thy (pron.) Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine..

Orchotomy :: Orchotomy (n.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.

Scale :: Scale (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

Cytty :: Cytty (a.) Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark..

Whittle :: Whittle (n.) A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife..

Chinse :: Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly..

Drawknife :: Drawknife (n.) A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave..

Knife-edge :: Knife-edge (n.) 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..

Comb :: Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

Machete :: Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes..

Gap :: Gap (v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife..

Couteau :: Couteau (n.) A knife; a dagger.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

Knife :: Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.

Shank :: Shank (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle..