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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..

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..

Cuttle :: Cuttle (n.) A knife.

Catling :: Catling (n.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife..

Bowie Knife :: 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. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife..

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

Cultirostral :: Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc..

Cultriform :: Cultriform (a.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

Razor :: Razor (v. t.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword..

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

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

Case Knife :: Case knife () A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.

Bistoury :: Bistoury (n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface..

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

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..

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..

Galvanocautery :: Galvanocautery (n.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

Penknife :: Penknife (n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

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