Wiktionary
adv. being threatened with a knife; under coercion.
Usage examples of "at knifepoint".
Maybe she should strip her next bed partner at knifepoint, prove herself her father's daughter to one and all.
Locating Kaem's room had posed a problem, but he woke a serving girl and forced her at knifepoint to lead him to the general's bedchamber.
He was climbing stairs and stumbling, he was being robbed at knifepoint by a couple of panhandlers, staggering against them, he was dropping his wine glass on the table, he was in a bed thank God, he was lying in a bath, wallowing.
The defendant, William Charles Croydon, had abducted Dandridge's sister at knifepoint as she walked from the college library to her off-campus apartment.
Imagine a comic character being held at knifepoint by a vicious enemy-not usually a funny situation.
Did a stranger force her at knifepoint, then strangle and leave her to the dogs?