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n. a knife intended for survival purposes in a wilderness environment, often in an emergency situation when the user has lost most of his/her main equipment.
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Survival knives are knives intended for survival purposes in a wilderness environment, often in an emergency when the user has lost most of his/her main equipment. Military units issue some type of survival knife to pilots in the event their plane may be shot down. Survival knives can be used for trapping, skinning, wood cutting, wood carving, and other uses. Hunters, hikers, and outdoor sport enthusiasts use survival knives. Some survival knives are heavy-bladed and thick. Other survival knives are lightweight or fold in order to save weight and bulk as part of a larger survival kit. Their functions often include serving as a hunting knife. Features, such as hollow handles that could be used as storage space for matches or similar small items, began gaining popularity in the 1980s. Custom or semi-custom makers such as Americans Jimmy Lile, Bo Randall, and Chris Reeve are often credited with inventing those features.
Survival Knife formed in early 2011. They played their first show in March 2012. The band has played shows through the Pacific Northwest with such groups as METZ, Bitch Magnet, Mosquito Hawk, Wimps, Kinski, and Hungry Ghost. They completed a west coast tour in April 2013 supporting Modest Mouse. Two members of Survival Knife, Justin Trosper and Brandt Sandeno, were members of the Post-hardcore band Unwound that broke up in 2002.
They released their first single, "Traces of Me" on March 5, 2013 on the US label Sub Pop.
They released their debut album, "Loose Power" on April 30, 2014 on the US label Glacial Pace.
Usage examples of "survival knife".
Moody was squatting to the left of the stream, staring at the blade of his survival knife and singing under his breath—.
She slipped a black-handled survival knife back into its sheath at her thigh.
The kit didn't have a razor, but I made do with the big survival knife and the tiny bar of soap, using the watery supporting fluid still in the coffin.
A third stood over him with a standard ship-issue survival knife poised to strike.
We found a knife, a survival knife with a whetstone in the sheath and a compass in the handle.
Newman grabbed one of the empty plastic gasoline bottles, cut it in two with the survival knife, and began to bail-even as the boat started to settle deeper in the river.
Soon after that, they supposedly found the RTAK survival knife in the attic of my house.
Not at all like the jagged blade he had carried as a devilkid, or the sterile, straight survival knife in his flight boot sheath.
Gil threw the stump at his foe and reached around with his right hand, snatching out his survival knife from the back of his belt, and went on guard.