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Whittler's tool
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penknife
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Word definitions for penknife in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from pen (n.1) + knife (n.). So called because such small knives were used to sharpen quills.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Billy used his penknife to fashion a needle sharp point on each of the sticks. ▪ He laid the telephone and torch back on the table then probed delicately with the end of a penknife . ▪ His scars were tourist penknife doodles. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small pocketknife; a small knife with a blade which folds into the hand. Penknives often incorporate other tools such as corkscrews, and are generally smaller than pocketknives as a group.
Usage examples of penknife.
But they were going to have to come-up with something more than a little Swiss penknife before they got out of this place.
He howled, tearing himself free, almost tugging the penknife from her hands.
Before anyone else could react, Kate ran forward, brandishing her little Swiss penknife, feeling like a fool.
Kate stabbed at one of them, he smashed the penknife from her grip with a curse and then used the flat of his big hand to club her to the ground.
Gullywudes and spriggans, and a bogan or two, leapt away from where the penknife skittered across the stone floor, throwing up sparks.
He wiped the penknife dry on his pant leg and replaced it in the pencase, and took each leaf in turn, dabbing it in the blood until each had been marked.
But his penknife was a tiny thing, suitable for sharpening quills and cutting paper, not to doing battle with monstrous stone dogs.
He started working on one of the heels of the shoes, prying it loose with his penknife, until someone pounded on the back of the van.
He took down the mirror, then produced a penknife and dug into the Sheetrock.
Daniels took out a penknife and dug into the mortar between two concrete blocks.
With my penknife I had nicked out a crude slit in the lid for the coins.
He started to carefully cut around the packing tape with his penknife and peel back the several layers of brown paper.
Using his penknife, Smolinski carefully cut away the rest of the wrapper and slid the contents out onto the conference table.
The little man took out a pipe from his pocket, and a small penknife, and began to remove the dottle from the bowl.
I cut the frayed string with my penknife, broke the seal with my thumb and unfolded the sheet.