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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Tang :: Tang (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle..
Cultriform :: Cultriform (a.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
Gap :: Gap (v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife..
Knife :: Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.
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..
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..
Knifeboard :: Knifeboard (n.) A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Colter :: Colter (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard..
Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc..
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..
Cytty :: Cytty (a.) Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark..
Spalting Knife :: Spalting knife () A knife used in splitting codfish.
Cuttle :: Cuttle (n.) A knife.
Cream-slice :: Cream-slice (n.) A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream..
Knifed :: Knifed (imp. & p. p.) of Knif.
Cystotome :: Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
Comb :: Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
Swinglebar :: Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand..
Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].
Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife..
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