Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A large knife designed for cutting cooked turkey and similar dishes.
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n. a large knife used to carve cooked meat
Usage examples of "carving knife".
Mind you, I'd put that carving knife under my pillow and hadn't done anything with it.
Thrasne turned quickly to return to the Gift of Potipur, his hands itching for his carving knife.
With Hadanelith's carving knife lying on the floor where Judeth had just kicked it, there wasn't much doubt in Amberdrake's mind where those scars had come from.
Urprox Screl sat alone on the old wooden bench, hunched ,~~ forward with his elbows resting on his knees, carving knife in one hand, block of wood in the other.
With Hadaneliths carving knife lying on the floor where Judeth had just kicked it, there wasnt much doubt in Amberdrakes mind where those scars had come from.
Dorrin sets down his cup, then takes out the carving knife and a small piece of wood.
While he has a belt knife and the carving knife, of course, they are tools, not weapons.
For the Duchess de Trops died on the spot from terminal shame, only to be followed a moment later by her husband, his weak heart overcome by the sight of his naked-but-dead shrew of a wife and his naked-but-alive sister, the Madame Copieux, for whose voluptuous body he had long harbored incestuous passion, only to be followed into death by his sister herself, who promptly committed suicide with a carving knife due to her own distress at being denied the now-at-last-available body of that very same brother for whose stallion-like attentions she had long kept as her secret the identical unnatural lust.
There was a slice half carved from the roast, the fork still standing stuck in the meat and the carving knife lying partway in the platter as if dropped.