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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
craft knife
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cut lengths off at ceiling and skirting with a sharp craft knife, angled into corners, for an exact fit.
▪ Cut the tiles to the required width with a sharp craft knife, and just slip into place.
▪ Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife.
▪ He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever, hammer and a craft knife.
▪ Remove the boxes and Plasticine, and tidy up the rough edges, using a craft knife.
▪ The vinyl is cut to size the a craft knife, the backing peeled off and the laminate simply stuck in place.
▪ Trim the paper to the shape of the faces with a sharp craft knife.
▪ Use a craft knife for really sharp edges.

Usage examples of "craft knife".

On the Saturday following my traumatic weekend, I purchased an adjustable spanner, a pair of pliers and a craft knife in a self-service store devoted to motoring accessories.

With a craft knife and ruler, he dissected the first page of the Book and reassembled it in the traditional Western languages order - left to right, parallel rows.

I'd sit down at the kitchen table and before I even opened the box, I'd make sure that I had all the right tools, the right kind of glue and all the right paints, matt and gloss, and a really, really sharp craft knife, and I'd promise myself that I was going to follow the instructions absolutely to the letter, and really take my time, not leap ahead, not rush things, proceed with care, concentrate, really, really concentrate, so that at the end I'd have this perfect model plane, the Platonic ideal of what a model plane should be.