The Collaborative International Dictionary
Case knife \Case" knife`\
A knife carried in a sheath or case.
--Addison.A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A knife carried in a sheath or case. 2 A large table knife of a kind formerly kept in a case.
WordNet
n. a metal blade with a handle; used as cutlery
a knife with a fixed blade that is carried in a sheath [syn: sheath knife]
Wikipedia
A case knife is a name used throughout the American South to refer to a table knife, i.e. a knife intended for use at the dining table. The origin of this usage comes from a time when inns did not customarily provide eating utensils with meals. The table fork was relatively new, and was often sold in combination with a knife and, sometimes, a spoon. Thus the term refers to a knife that was sold in a case, as part of a set of utensils intended for use in dining. Case knife is also used to refer to a pocketknife made by W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co..
Case knife can refer to:
- Case knife, a type of table knife.
- Runner bean, a case knife is a variety of runner bean.
- W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., a maker of knives.
Usage examples of "case knife".
The unhappy man who aspires to deliverance, finds the means, sometimes without tools, with a folding knife, with an old case knife, to split a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these two plates without touching the stamp of the mint, and to cut a screw-thread upon the edge of the sou, so as to make the plates adhere anew.
After Dish had caught his breath he pulled his case knife out of his pocket and asked if anyone wanted a game of root-the-peg.
I can tighten the screws with a case knife, and there's some tape here and------Please, Carl!
Probing inside, he found a few Plenimaran coins, two rings, a case knife, and some small wooden disks.