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21Bowie knife — specifically refers to a style of knife popularized by Colonel James Jim Bowie and first made by James Black, although its common use refers to any large sheath knife with a clip point. Description The historical Bowie was not a single design,… …
22Kitchen knife — A kitchen knife is any knife that is intended to be used in food preparation. While much of this work can be accomplished with a few general purpose knives – notably a large chef s knife, a tough cleaver, and a small paring knife – there are also …
23Sliding knife — An OTF knife, showing the blade being extended from the handle. An OTF Knife, also known as an out the front knife, sliding knife, or telescoping knife, is a pocketknife with a blade that opens and closes through a hole in one end of the handle.… …
24Mark I trench knife — On the left a Mark I knife used to dig up an anti personnel mine. The mine is an S mine The Mark I trench knife was an American trench knife designed by officers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) for use in World War I. It had a… …
25pocket knife — noun a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket • Syn: ↑pocketknife • Hypernyms: ↑knife • Hyponyms: ↑clasp knife, ↑jackknife, ↑penknife, ↑ …
26jack-knife — {{11}}jack knife (n.) also jackknife, large pocket knife, 1711, probably Amer.Eng., perh[aps] associated with some sense of JACK sb.1, but Cf. jackleg knife [OED]; see JACK (Cf. jack) + KNIFE (Cf. knife) (n.). Jackleg was a U.S. colloquial term… …
27Balisong (knife) — A balisong, otherwise known as a butterfly knife or a Batangas knife, is a Philippine folding pocket knife with two handles counter rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles. In the… …
28Swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle. [ < Swiss Army, a trademark] * * * ˌSwiss ˈArmy knife 7 [Swiss Army knife] ™ noun a small knife with several different blades and tools… …
29Penny knife — The penny knife is the most basic kind of folding knife, where the blade folds in and out of the handle freely without a spring or other locking device to hold it in position. The smallest models of Opinel knife are an example of this simple… …
30Marjacq knife — The Marjacq knife is a luxurious folding knife made at Thiers in France. The blade is of stainless steel and the handle is of boxwood, olive wood or ebony, and there is a locking ring to hold the blade in position, similar to that found on Opinel …
