knifen.

Brit.

/nʌɪf/, U.S.

/naɪf/

Forms: Plural knives /naɪvz/. Forms: Old English–Middle English cnif, Middle English–1600s knif, (Middle English cnife, cniue, kniue), Middle English knijf, Middle English knyue, Middle English knyf, knyff(e, Middle English–1500s knyfe, Middle English– knife. plural Middle English cniues, cnifes, cnifen, Middle English–1500s kniues, (Middle English knyfes, knifys, 1500s–1600s knifs), 1600s knifes, 1600s– knives.

Etymology: Late Old English cníf (11th cent.) = Frisian knif, Middle Dutch cnijf (Dutch knijf), Middle Low German knîf (Low German knîf, knief, knif), German kneif (probably from Low German), Old Norse kníf-r (Swedish knif, Danish kniv) < Old Germanic *knīƀo-z, of uncertain etymology. Forms with p are also found in Dutch knijp, Low German knîp, kniep, German kneip (also kneupe, gneip, gnippe): as to the relation between these and the forms with f, compare knape and knave. French canif (1441 in Godefroy Compl.) is from Germanic.

a. A cutting instrument, consisting of a blade with a sharpened longitudinal edge fixed in a handle, either rigidly as in a carving knife (carving-knife at carving n. 4a), sheath-knife, or table-knife (table knife n. at table n. Compounds 3), or with a joint as in a clasp-knife (clasp-knife n.) or pocket-knife (pocket knife n.). The blade is generally of steel, but sometimes of other material, as in the silver fish- and fruit-knives, the (blunt-edged) paper knife (paper knife n.) of ivory, wood, etc., and the flint knives of early man.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun]

saxa800

knifea1100

trencherc1330

coultera1382

shear1382

thwittlec1405

prag1481

cuttle1551

chiv1673

machine knife1867

mackerel plougha1884

a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 329/17 Artauus, cnif.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4128 Þatt cnif wass..Off stan, and nohht of irenn.

c1305 Pilate 234 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 Len me a knyf þis appel to parie.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 368 Hir knyues [v.r. knyfes] were chaped noght with bras But al with siluer wroght ful clene and wel.

c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 30 Brynge no knyves vnskoured to the table.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Knife to cut vynes, or graffynge knyfe.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 90 A Shooemakers paring knife.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 23 Oct. (1971) IV. 345 Bought a large Kitchin knife and half Dozen oyster knifes.

1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 6 Silver and gold Knives, brought in with the Desert for carving Jellies.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 183 A slip of the knife may wound a neighbouring branch.

1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 214 Lisfranc uses a double-edged knife, and passes it round the limb so as to carry it with its point downwards on the anterior surface of the tibia.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 726/2 Double-knife, a knife having a pair of blades which may be set at any regulated distance from each other, so as to obtain thin sections of soft bodies. One form of this is known as Valentin's knife, from the inventor.

b. A knife used as a weapon of offence or defence; a knife-like weapon; applied to a short sword, cutlass, or hanger. war to the knife: war to the last extremity, fierce or relentless war (literal and figurative).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun]

saxa800

knifec1175

pricka1350

awla1387

daggerc1386

puncheonc1425

custil1447

punch?1480

murdererc1500

pointela1522

poniard1533

pounce1545

poignado?a1549

slaughmess1548

dirk1557

pistolesea1566

parazone1623

coutel1647

chiv1673

couteau1677

cuttoe1678

sticker1772

cultel1824

skewer1838

snicker1847

shiv1915

chib1929

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > short sword

saxa800

knifec1175

whinyard1478

hanger1481

short-sword1508

whinger1540

whanger1541

half-sword1552

estocade1579

wacadash1613

acinaces1653

dourlach1825

estoc1830

dah1832

simi1860

malchus1890

kirpan1904

society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > war to the death

internecine1642

war to the knife1812

internecinal war1829

internecion1848

jihad1880

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 69 We ne maȝen be fond from us driue Ne mid sworde ne mid kniue.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2286 He drou is knif, & slou þe king.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 165 Hadde þei had knyues, bi cryst, her eyther had killed other.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Than Yre come in with sturt and stryfe, His hand wes ay vpoun his knyfe.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 867 Ilk ane a schort knyfe braidit out sone.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C6^v The worthie meed Of him, that slew Sansfoy with bloody knife.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 63 Thou layst in euery gash that loue hath giuen mee The knife that made it.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica App. 266 If I had been Stab'd, or had had my Flesh cut with Knives.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxvi. 54 War, war is still the cry, ‘War even to the knife!’

1876 W. E. Gladstone Relig. Thought i, in Contemp. Rev. June 7 ‘Catholicism’ has..declared war to the knife against modern culture.

1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. ii. v. 5 If Westall bullies him any more he will put a knife into him.

†c. pair of knives, a set of two knives, esp. as carried in one sheath. Obsolete.Davies and others following him have explained the term as = ‘a pair of scissors’, but this is apparently erroneous.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > set of

pair of knives?1578

1302–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 504 In uno pare de Cultell. empt. pro Priore, 5s.]

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 47 A payr of capped Sheffield kniuez hanging a to side.

1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xvii. sig. Cij A paire of Kniues,..New Gloues to put vpon thy milk-white hand Ile giue thee.

1610 T. Cocks Diary 24 Nov. (1901) 112 Paide for a paire of knyves for my va[lentine]: 2s a stringe for them 10d.

a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 21 But see, the Bridegroom and Bride comes; the new pair of Sheffeild-Knives fitted both to one sheath.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xiii. 25 Half a dozen pair of Knifs.

1893 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 4 17/2 At a meeting of the British Archæological Association, in 1860, was exhibited a pair of wedding knives in their embossed sheath of courbouilli.

d. A sharpened cutting-blade forming part of a machine, as of a straw-cutter, turnip-cutter, rag-engine, etc.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of > blade or edge of > in a machine

knife1833

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 261 These knives are placed obliquely to the axle..so as to operate with a sort of draw cut upon the matter presented at the end of the box.

1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show Gloucester 31 The knives are as easily sharpened and set as in an ordinary chaff cutter.

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 105 It would be impossible to change the cylinders when a machine has a variety of work to do, but by having some extra knives ground at different bevels it becomes an easy matter to change them.

e. before (one) can say knife: very quickly or suddenly. Also while (one) would say knife. colloquial.

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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase]

without restc1225

but bodea1300

without residence1488

before you know where you are1803

in a heartbeat1860

before (one) can say knife1874

1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life II. iii. viii. 170 He was over the wall before you could say ‘knife’.

1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xxxii. 443 'Fore I could say knife he was out and clane off.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 334 We'll pull you off before you can say knife.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Toss off a glass of brandy neat while you'd say knife.

1954 A. Macrae Both Ends Meet in Plays of Year X. 509 With a couple like that you'll be in a lawsuit before you can say ‘knife’.

1973 M. Muggeridge Infernal Grove i. 71 Like alcoholics after taking the cure—never another drop; well, just a taste perhaps, and then, before you could say knife, back on the meths.

f. the knife: used as typical of surgical operations. Also attributive.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > a surgical operation

operation?a1425

surgical1828

the knife1880

procedure1890

op1925

1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 88 But they said too of him He was happier using the knife than in trying to save the limb.

1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 95 My sleep was broken besides with dreams of the dreadful knife.

1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 350 And leave you knife-wallahs to kill our patients?

1961 Woman 18 Mar. 10/4 Had she seen the new nurse on women's surgical? The knife men always had the luck.

g. to get or have one's knife into (a person): to exhibit a malicious or vindictive spirit towards; to persecute unrelentingly.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > treat maliciously [verb (transitive)]

malicea1547

spite1581

spite1598

bitch1764

to get or have one's knife into1890

1890 D. C. Murray John Vale's Guardian III. xxxvi. 173 I reckon you've got your knife into Mr. Jousserau.

1892 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mere Luck viii You have..a general disposition to feel that the whole world has, to use a very modern phrase, ‘got its knife into you’.

1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill vi. 116 This was to be the beginning of persecution. The Reverend Moy-Thompson had got his knife into him.

1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ix. 440 You got your knife into him the first time he came here, and after that of course he had to be blamed for everything.

1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) i. 26 I don't know what's got into you. Why've you got your knife into this reporter chap?

h. night of the long knives: see long knife n. 1.

i. you (or one) could cut (something) with a knife: colloquial phrase used to describe an atmosphere (literal or figurative) so thick that it seems capable of being cut with a knife.

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the world > matter > gas > air > [phrase] > thick air

you (or one) could cut (something) with a knife1892

1892 A. W. Pinero Magistrate i. 18 There's a fog on the line—you could cut it with a knife.

1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour (1955) xiii. 111 The smell was chiefly cabbage..and one could have cut it with a knife.

1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death v. 68 You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

knife-age n. (See age n. 7.)

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1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 94 The third patriarch begins the ‘knife-age and the axe-age with cloven shields’.

knife-back n.

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1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 124 Shoulders..no thicker than a Knife Back.

1886 Harper's Mag. June 119/2 Between these knife-back ledges are plots of sea-green grass.

1966 Listener 2 June 789/1 Miniature trains of rubber-tyred, electrically-driven cars (with knife-back seats or flat decks for standing passengers) would run on set routes.

knife-basket n.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-basket, a tray for holding table-knives.

knife-box n.

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1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vii. 59 An old-fashioned crabbed knife-box..on a dumb waiter.

knife-case n.

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1790 Pennsylvania Packet 6 Jan. 1/4 Steel and gilt hat buckles, and A few inlaid mahogany knife cases.

a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 344 Nanny..was beginning to bustle into the parlour with the Tray & the Knife-case.

1971 Canad. Antiques Collector May 3 (advt.) Rare and elegant pair of circular inlaid mahogany Knife Cases of the highest quality. English. Circa 1800.

knife-cut n.

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1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xvi. 134 With a knife-cut on the side of the cheek.

knife-feat n.

knife-girdle n.

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1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xi. 190 Knife-girdle of lion's hide.

knife-haft n.

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1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xii. 211/2 The Skill of making fine Knives, and Knive-hafts.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak.

knife-shaft n.

knife-stab n.

knife-stroke n.

knife-thrust n. figurative

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1894 Daily Tel. 27 June 6/7 That successful knife-thrust.

1959 Times 24 June 13/1 The knife-thrusts of Ibsen's dialogue.

1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 228 The first knife-thrusts of hunger had developed into a permanent ache of emptiness.

knife-tray n.

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1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati xiii. 215 Among the principal articles are..knife trays.

1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 168/1 Knife-trays. Japanned and filleted.

knife-trick n.

b. Objective, objective genitive, and instrumental.

knife and-shoe-boy n.

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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. vi. 159 A cook..and knife-and-shoe-boy.

knife-cleaning n.

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1869 Daily News 11 Dec. Knife-cleaning machine maker.

knife-eater n.

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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 120 The medical journals..are numerous in their descriptions of London knife-eaters.

knife-fancier n.

knife-hafter n.

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1864 Leeds Mercury 24 Oct. Richard Rhodes, knife hafter.

knife-juggling n.

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1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vii. 202 Some terrible feats of knife-juggling.

knife-maker n.

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1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A knife maker.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4082/4 William Dickenson,..Scizer or Knife-maker.

knife-sticking n.

knife-swallower n.

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1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 117 Cummings, the knife-swallower.

knife-throwing n.

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1923 G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen i. 28 If there's shooting or knife-throwing.

c. Similative.

knife-backed adj.

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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 382 Knife backt Sculptor, is a Sculptor with a thin edge on its back.

knife-featured adj.

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1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 638/2 A tall, lanky, sharp-boned, knife-featured fellow.

knife-happy adj.

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1961 Amer. Speech 36 147 Knife happy, overeager to resort to operation, said of a surgeon.

1964 New Statesman 21 Feb. 306/3 Sacha Pitoeff scowls away as a canapé-ferrying, knife-happy villain.

knife-jawed adj.

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1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 349 The Knife-Jawed Fishes... A small genus..(Hoplognathus)..characterised by the jawbones having a sharp cutting edge.

knife-like adj.

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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 315 Her great fault was her knife-like bow.

1860 Illustr. London News 14 Apr. 362/3 [The simoom's] passage leaves a narrow ‘knifelike’ track.

knife-shaped adj.

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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 312 Compressed knife-shaped bill.

knife-sharp adj.

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1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 73 Down from the spring the knife-sharp waters run.

1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 145 The wind came in, knife-sharp, from the North Sea.

1974 H. R. F. Keating Bats fly Up ix. 95 Ghote felt a knife-sharp happiness.

knife-skewed adj.

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a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 41 Your slender attitude Trembles not exquisite like limbs knife-skewed.

knife-stripped adj.

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1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. v. 74 Dogs..growling over the knife-stripped bones.

C2. Special combinations. See also knife-board n., knife-edge n., knife-grinder n., knife-handle n., etc.

knife-bar n. a bar bearing the knives in a cutting machine.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of > blade or edge of > in a machine > bar bearing

knife-bar1870

1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 312 By the arrangement of its parts the knife-bar is placed further forward than in most machines.

1882 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts V. 1603 Knife-bar, with diagonal slots, to give the lateral movement as it descends.

knife-bayonet n. a combined knife and bayonet, carried when not in use in a sheath, a small sword-bayonet.

knife-blade n. (a) the blade of a knife; (b) something sharp or pointed; (c) in Mountaineering, a kind of piton (see quot. 1968); also attributive and in other combinations.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > blade

blade1330

tool1653

knife-blade1738

the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharp edge

edgeOE

facea1382

cutting edge1825

knife-edge1871

knife-blade1902

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of

runner1688

runner ring1791

ice axec1800

alpenstock1829

rope1838

climbing-iron1857

piolet1868

snap-link1875

prickera1890

middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892

chock1894

glacier-rope1897

piton1898

run-out1901

belaying-pin1903

snap-ring1903

ironmongery1904

line1907

Tricouni1914

ice claw1920

peg1920

sling1920

ice piton1926

ice hammer1932

karabiner1932

rock piton1934

thread belay1935

mugger1941

running belay1941

piton hammer1943

sky-hook1951

etrier1955

pied d'éléphant1956

rope sling1957

piton runner1959

bong1960

krab1963

rurp1963

ice screw1965

nut1965

traverse line1965

jumar1966

knife-blade1968

tie-off1968

rock peg1971

whammer1971

Whillans whammer1971

Whillans harness1974

1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory v. 129 To etch 100 or more Knife Blades at once.

1902 Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 3/2 The snowy knife-blade arète.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons i. 44 The knife-blade-like larvæ of the eel.

1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting x. 49 All fingers, including the thumb, pressing tightly against each other to form a ‘knife blade’.

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 106 A shallow basin gives the fish no shade, Dive as they will, there's flash of fin's knife-blade.

1968 P. Crew Encycl. Dict. Mountaineering 75/2 Knife-blade, a long thin piton. The name is mainly applied to chrome-molly pitons of this type.

1971 D. Haston in C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xvii. 206 It was a long and tortuous pitch done in one run-out on one of our big ropes. Firstly knee-deep mushy snow, then hard ice to exit, with one miserable knife-blade for protection.

knife-boy n. a boy employed to clean table-knives.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant

squiller1303

waynpainc1330

kitchener1332

custronc1400

kitchen knave1440

scullion1483

scudler1488

swiller?a1500

dishwashera1529

lubber1538

kitchen maid1551

kitchen wencha1556

scull1566

washpot1570

kitchen stuff1582

scrape-trencher1603

kitchenist?1617

trencher-scraper1650

mediastine1658

drudge-pudding1737

marmiton1754

knife-boy1847

potwalloper1859

kitchen mechanic1861

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 43 The knife-boy was caught stealing a cold shoulder of mutton.

knife-bracelet n. an iron bracelet with a sharp edge, used as a weapon by African natives.

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1898 Geogr. Jrnl. (Royal Geogr. Soc.) 11 383 To guard themselves from capture, they wear a very sharp knife bracelet, when fighting they remove the sheath.

knife-cleaner n. a machine for cleaning and polishing knives.

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1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. i. 12 A knife-cleaner that spoilt all the knives.

1891 Month 72 19 The apple-parer and knife-cleaner are American.

knife-dagger n. an ancient form of one-edged dagger, having a long and heavy blade.

knife-file n. a thin and tapering file, with a very sharp edge.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files

jack file1678

knife-file1683

pillar file1683

using-file1683

carlet1688

grail1688

screw-rasp1688

riffler1797

quannet1809

safe edge1815

cross-cut1831

saw-file1846

shouldering file1846

warding file1846

found1874

side file1874

cant-filea1877

pin bone1936

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 382 Knife-file, a file with a thin edge.

knife-fish n. a species of carp ( Cyprinus cultratus).

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type

porgy1725

knife-fish1799

kurper1831

goniodont1854

headstander1955

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 176 The knife-fish.

knife-grass n. a stout American sedge ( Scleria latifolia) with sharp-edged leaves.

knife-guard n. a small metal piece or arm hinged to the back of a carving-fork to protect the hand against the slipping of the knife.

knife-head n. ‘that piece in the cutting apparatus of a harvester to which the knife is fastened, and to which the pitman-head is connected’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884).

† knife-hook n. Obsolete a sickle.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle

hooka700

sicklea1000

crookc1290

cycle1387

reap hook1388

reaping hook1578

knife-hooka1599

crotchet1833

a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xxxviii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2 In his one hand, as fit for haruests toyle, He held a knife-hook.

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knife-lanyard n. a lanyard to which a sailor's knife is fastened.

knife-money n. an ancient Chinese currency consisting of bronze shaped like a knife.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > metal in specific shape

larin1588

ring-money1759

wheel-money1861

bullet-money1879

spade-coin1892

spade-money1892

knife-money1901

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 255/2 Between 1122 and 224 b.c. a very curious knife-money was used in the state of Tsi. This coin was of copper, shaped like a bill-hook, and about seven inches long, with the handle terminating in a ring, doubtless for the purpose of stringing the coins together.

knife-plait n. = knife-pleat n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric > pleat

plait1440

pinchc1450

plightc1450

pleata1529

tuck1532

lipea1600

box pleat1857

accordion pleat1884

organ pipe1890

knife-pleat1891

sunburst1897

pin tuck1902

knife-plait1911

1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Knife plait, a narrow overhanging plait.

knife-pleat n. a narrow sharply creased pleat (in a garment, esp. a skirt).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric > pleat

plait1440

pinchc1450

plightc1450

pleata1529

tuck1532

lipea1600

box pleat1857

accordion pleat1884

organ pipe1890

knife-pleat1891

sunburst1897

pin tuck1902

knife-plait1911

1891 Cassell's Family Mag. Nov. 753/2 ‘Knife-pleats’—as the Americans call them, to distinguish the single from the box-pleat—are turned towards the centre of the back [of the mantle].

1927 Vogue 2 Nov. 14 French, Knife, Box, Accordion, Crystal and Combination Pleats can be made in any size.

1928 Daily Mail 31 July 1/2 Well made with smart knife pleats at sides.

1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour ii. 30/1 Knife pleats, series of pleats that turn in the same direction, are usually equal in width and are pressed straight to the hem.

knife-pleated adj. pleated by hand with a blade of a knife (or by a machine producing the same result).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > pleated or folded

rodded1562

wimpled1599

fulled1816

draped1833

folded1833

box-pleated1863

kilted1896

swathed1896

sunray-pleated1897

knife-pleated1905

permanently pleated1938

1905 Daily Chron. 29 May 8/5 In the case of a linen gown..it would be as well to do without the knife-pleated frills.

1937 Times 27 Sept. 19/2 A knife-pleated vermilion dinner gown.

1965 Punch 12 May p. xvii Knife-pleated travel skirts.

knife-pleating n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric

plaiting1400

pleating?c1475

plissé1869

kilting1880

knife-pleating1895

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 37/1 Fast Black Sateen Waists... 2 rows knife pleating from shoulder to belt.

1937 Times 27 Sept. 19/2 Knife pleating was used in several graceful gowns.

knife-polisher n. = knife-cleaner n.

knife-rest n. (a) a small pillow of metal or glass on which to rest a carving-knife or -fork at table; also, a support to keep a knife in position while it is being ground; (b) Military slang a barrier or obstruction composed of barbed wire and timber.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers

treble1569

firewall1578

herisson1704

boat work1782

tambour1834

gabionage1849

knife-rest1858

skerm1861

stockade tambour1892

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > rests

rest1680

slide-rest1839

table-tree1843

hand rest1849

knife-rest1858

tool-rest1864

turning-rest1889

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-rest.

1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 Knife-rests, chevaux de frise.

1921 F. W. Bewsher Hist. 51st Div. vii. 114 Stooks of cut strands of wire and over-turned knife-rests lay everywhere.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 138 Kniferest, the name at the Front for a portable X-shaped wire-entanglement framework, resembling a knife-rest, used for stopping gaps in wire-entanglements in No Man's Land.

1927 A. Keith-Falconer Oxfordshire Hussars 215 The two R.E. men with the torpedo at once blew the wire up (it was only one knife-rest thick) and the party crossed the trench.

1929 C. Edmonds Subaltern's War 54 A framework of stakes and barbed wire of the kind which solders call a ‘knife-rest’.

1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iv. 54 The entrance to the courtyard was blocked by a heavy ‘knife-rest’ barbed wire entanglement.

1964 A. Farrar-Hockley Somme ii. 83 Gaps had been filled with wired knife-rests and concertina rolls pegged down with iron pickets.

knife-roller n. a (cotton-gin) roller furnished with sharp blades.

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1896 W. S. Taggart Cotton Spinning I. 28 The seed cotton..comes into contact with a knife roller, formed of a number of knife discs.

knife-scales n. the sides of the haft of a knife.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > handle > side(s) of handle

scale1845

knife-scales1884

1884 Yorks. Post 9 Jan. ‘Knife-scales’ are those parts of a knife that form the sides of the handle..of horn, bone, ivory, or tortoiseshell.

knife-sharpener n. an instrument, usually of steel, for sharpening knives.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-sharpener.

knife-smith n. a maker of knives, a cutler.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] > knife-maker

knife-smith1738

bolo-maker1901

1738 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 131 Augustine Neusser, a knife-smith.

1886 J. Pendleton Hist. Derbysh. 195 The knifesmith's homely forge.

† knife-stone n. Obsolete a hone.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone

whetstonec725

hone-stone1393

filourc1400

hone1440

rub1502

rubber1553

knife-stone1571

stone1578

oilstone1585

block1592

oil whetstone1601

greenstone1668

scythe-stone1688

water stone1703

sharping-stone1714

Scotch stone1766

honer1780

Turkey hone1794

polishing-slate1801

burr1816

Turkey stone1816

German hone1817

Arkansas1869

rag1877

rock1889

slipstone1927

1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 352 ij dosen knyff stones and iiij dosen rebstones.

knife switch n. Electrical Engineering a switch consisting of a conducting blade or set of blades hinged at one end so that it may be swung out of or into a fixed contact or set of contacts at the other end.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > device to open or close circuit > [noun] > knife-switch

knife switch1907

1907 H. H. Norris Introd. Study Electr. Engin. ix. 225 Open knife switches as described are not commonly used for circuit-breaking purposes above 500 volts and a few hundred amperes.

1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 235/1 Knife switch, a switch having a movable blade of copper or brass which makes a contact between two parallel contact springs.

1962 Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 726/2 Air-break isolators are made in a large variety of forms and range from the simple knife switch to those suitable for the highest transmission voltages.

knife-thrower n. one who throws knives (spec. as a form of entertainment); also U.S. slang (see quot. 1905).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of

knife-warper?c1225

saccularian1652

fire-eater1676

fire king1796

juggler1807

stone-eater1820

sword-swallower1826

fire-swallower1857

salamander1859

jadoo-wallah1890

knife-thrower1905

gully-gully man1930

1905 Smart Set Oct. 3/1 ‘They got a new knife-thrower up to the hotel,’ he announced... (A ‘knife-thrower’, be it known, is parlance for waitress.)

1953 P. G. Wodehouse Performing Flea 190 He would shoot all round you till you felt like a knife-thrower's assistant, but you were really quite safe.

1973 Listener 19 July 80/1 Electrons are fired at an object, and they trace its outline like a knife-thrower at a fair.

knife-tool n. (a) a knife-shaped graver, (b) a minute disk used to cut fine lines in seal-engraving.

† knife-warper n. Obsolete a knife-thrower, a juggler.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of

knife-warper?c1225

saccularian1652

fire-eater1676

fire king1796

juggler1807

stone-eater1820

sword-swallower1826

fire-swallower1857

salamander1859

jadoo-wallah1890

knife-thrower1905

gully-gully man1930

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 158 Is his cnif warpere & pleiȝeð mid swordes.

knife-work n. the use of knives as weapons or instruments; also figurative.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > [noun]

snick or snee1670

snicking and sneeing1674

snickersneeing1698

daggering1830

bowieism1844

knife-work1845

knife-playing1855

bowie-kniving1861

1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 143 But none of your knife-work, le'me tell you.

1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxii. 255 Copying a canvas isn't the same thing as painting direct... It's the technique that's a nuisance... I don't feel handy with so much knife-work.

1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iii. vii. 141 It has been knife-work up there.

1955 J. Morrison in Austral. Short Stories (1963) 2nd Ser. 147 Collins the overseer did all the knife-work—castrating, ear-marking, and tailing.

1965 J. Lawlor in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 76 Then proceed to the knife-work of murdering to dissect, in order to sweep the vile body aside to make room for the certified masterpieces.

knife-worm n. a caterpillar that cuts leaves.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that eats or destroys plants

leaf wormOE

wortworma1382

cole-worm1468

cole-wort worm1552

devil's gold ring1552

canker-blossom1600

peach-worm1814

knife-worm1860

hop-dog1872

nettle grub1890

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 40 Such an one has curculios, borers, knife-worms.

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knife block n. a solid block of wood or other material containing slots into which kitchen knives are inserted up to the handles for safe storage and ready access; = block n. Additions.

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1956 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Dec. 7/1 (advt.) Buy 6 knives..then get the Knife Block and Gift Box..free!

1992 Which? Aug. 434/2 There's no reason why the knife block shouldn't be handy. But they must be wary if young children visit.

2012 L. Wiehl & A. Henry Eyes of Justice 124 That knife block of Cassidy's had just two empty slots, right? And remember how you pointed out that there were a paring knife and a bread knife on the counter?

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单词	knife
释义	knifen. Brit. /nʌɪf/, U.S. /naɪf/ Forms: Plural knives /naɪvz/. Forms: Old English–Middle English cnif, Middle English–1600s knif, (Middle English cnife, cniue, kniue), Middle English knijf, Middle English knyue, Middle English knyf, knyff(e, Middle English–1500s knyfe, Middle English– knife. plural Middle English cniues, cnifes, cnifen, Middle English–1500s kniues, (Middle English knyfes, knifys, 1500s–1600s knifs), 1600s knifes, 1600s– knives. Etymology: Late Old English cníf (11th cent.) = Frisian knif, Middle Dutch cnijf (Dutch knijf), Middle Low German knîf (Low German knîf, knief, knif), German kneif (probably from Low German), Old Norse kníf-r (Swedish knif, Danish kniv) < Old Germanic knīƀo-z, of uncertain etymology. Forms with p are also found in Dutch knijp, Low German knîp, kniep, German kneip* (also kneupe, gneip, gnippe): as to the relation between these and the forms with f, compare knape and knave. French canif (1441 in Godefroy Compl.) is from Germanic. a. A cutting instrument, consisting of a blade with a sharpened longitudinal edge fixed in a handle, either rigidly as in a carving knife (carving-knife at carving n. 4a), sheath-knife, or table-knife (table knife n. at table n. Compounds 3), or with a joint as in a clasp-knife (clasp-knife n.) or pocket-knife (pocket knife n.). The blade is generally of steel, but sometimes of other material, as in the silver fish- and fruit-knives, the (blunt-edged) paper knife (paper knife n.) of ivory, wood, etc., and the flint knives of early man. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] saxa800 knifea1100 trencherc1330 coultera1382 shear1382 thwittlec1405 prag1481 cuttle1551 chiv1673 machine knife1867 mackerel plougha1884 a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 329/17 Artauus, cnif. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4128 Þatt cnif wass..Off stan, and nohht of irenn. c1305 Pilate 234 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 Len me a knyf þis appel to parie. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 368 Hir knyues [v.r. knyfes] were chaped noght with bras But al with siluer wroght ful clene and wel. c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 30 Brynge no knyves vnskoured to the table. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Knife to cut vynes, or graffynge knyfe. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 90 A Shooemakers paring knife. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 23 Oct. (1971) IV. 345 Bought a large Kitchin knife and half Dozen oyster knifes. 1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 6 Silver and gold Knives, brought in with the Desert for carving Jellies. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 183 A slip of the knife may wound a neighbouring branch. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 214 Lisfranc uses a double-edged knife, and passes it round the limb so as to carry it with its point downwards on the anterior surface of the tibia. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 726/2 Double-knife, a knife having a pair of blades which may be set at any regulated distance from each other, so as to obtain thin sections of soft bodies. One form of this is known as Valentin's knife, from the inventor. b. A knife used as a weapon of offence or defence; a knife-like weapon; applied to a short sword, cutlass, or hanger. war to the knife: war to the last extremity, fierce or relentless war (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] saxa800 knifec1175 pricka1350 awla1387 daggerc1386 puncheonc1425 custil1447 punch?1480 murdererc1500 pointela1522 poniard1533 pounce1545 poignado?a1549 slaughmess1548 dirk1557 pistolesea1566 parazone1623 coutel1647 chiv1673 couteau1677 cuttoe1678 sticker1772 cultel1824 skewer1838 snicker1847 shiv1915 chib1929 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > short sword saxa800 knifec1175 whinyard1478 hanger1481 short-sword1508 whinger1540 whanger1541 half-sword1552 estocade1579 wacadash1613 acinaces1653 dourlach1825 estoc1830 dah1832 simi1860 malchus1890 kirpan1904 society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > war to the death internecine1642 war to the knife1812 internecinal war1829 internecion1848 jihad1880 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 69 We ne maȝen be fond from us driue Ne mid sworde ne mid kniue. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2286 He drou is knif, & slou þe king. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 165 Hadde þei had knyues, bi cryst, her eyther had killed other. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Than Yre come in with sturt and stryfe, His hand wes ay vpoun his knyfe. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 867 Ilk ane a schort knyfe braidit out sone. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C6^v The worthie meed Of him, that slew Sansfoy with bloody knife. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 63 Thou layst in euery gash that loue hath giuen mee The knife that made it. View more context for this quotation 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica App. 266 If I had been Stab'd, or had had my Flesh cut with Knives. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxvi. 54 War, war is still the cry, ‘War even to the knife!’ 1876 W. E. Gladstone Relig. Thought i, in Contemp. Rev. June 7 ‘Catholicism’ has..declared war to the knife against modern culture. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. ii. v. 5 If Westall bullies him any more he will put a knife into him. †c. pair of knives, a set of two knives, esp. as carried in one sheath. Obsolete.Davies and others following him have explained the term as = ‘a pair of scissors’, but this is apparently erroneous. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > set of pair of knives?1578 1302–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 504 In uno pare de Cultell. empt. pro Priore, 5s.] ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 47 A payr of capped Sheffield kniuez hanging a to side. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xvii. sig. Cij A paire of Kniues,..New Gloues to put vpon thy milk-white hand Ile giue thee. 1610 T. Cocks Diary 24 Nov. (1901) 112 Paide for a paire of knyves for my va[lentine]: 2s a stringe for them 10d. a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 21 But see, the Bridegroom and Bride comes; the new pair of Sheffeild-Knives fitted both to one sheath. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xiii. 25 Half a dozen pair of Knifs. 1893 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 4 17/2 At a meeting of the British Archæological Association, in 1860, was exhibited a pair of wedding knives in their embossed sheath of courbouilli. d. A sharpened cutting-blade forming part of a machine, as of a straw-cutter, turnip-cutter, rag-engine, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of > blade or edge of > in a machine knife1833 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 261 These knives are placed obliquely to the axle..so as to operate with a sort of draw cut upon the matter presented at the end of the box. 1853 Catal. Royal Agric. Soc. Show Gloucester 31 The knives are as easily sharpened and set as in an ordinary chaff cutter. 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 105 It would be impossible to change the cylinders when a machine has a variety of work to do, but by having some extra knives ground at different bevels it becomes an easy matter to change them. e. before (one) can say knife: very quickly or suddenly. Also while (one) would say knife. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] without restc1225 but bodea1300 without residence1488 before you know where you are1803 in a heartbeat1860 before (one) can say knife1874 1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life II. iii. viii. 170 He was over the wall before you could say ‘knife’. 1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xxxii. 443 'Fore I could say knife he was out and clane off. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 334 We'll pull you off before you can say knife. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Toss off a glass of brandy neat while you'd say knife. 1954 A. Macrae Both Ends Meet in Plays of Year X. 509 With a couple like that you'll be in a lawsuit before you can say ‘knife’. 1973 M. Muggeridge Infernal Grove i. 71 Like alcoholics after taking the cure—never another drop; well, just a taste perhaps, and then, before you could say knife, back on the meths. f. the knife: used as typical of surgical operations. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > a surgical operation operation?a1425 surgical1828 the knife1880 procedure1890 op1925 1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 88 But they said too of him He was happier using the knife than in trying to save the limb. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 95 My sleep was broken besides with dreams of the dreadful knife. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 350 And leave you knife-wallahs to kill our patients? 1961 Woman 18 Mar. 10/4 Had she seen the new nurse on women's surgical? The knife men always had the luck. g. to get or have one's knife into (a person): to exhibit a malicious or vindictive spirit towards; to persecute unrelentingly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > treat maliciously [verb (transitive)] malicea1547 spite1581 spite1598 bitch1764 to get or have one's knife into1890 1890 D. C. Murray John Vale's Guardian III. xxxvi. 173 I reckon you've got your knife into Mr. Jousserau. 1892 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mere Luck viii You have..a general disposition to feel that the whole world has, to use a very modern phrase, ‘got its knife into you’. 1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill vi. 116 This was to be the beginning of persecution. The Reverend Moy-Thompson had got his knife into him. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ix. 440 You got your knife into him the first time he came here, and after that of course he had to be blamed for everything. 1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) i. 26 I don't know what's got into you. Why've you got your knife into this reporter chap? h. night of the long knives: see long knife n. 1. i. you (or one) could cut (something) with a knife: colloquial phrase used to describe an atmosphere (literal or figurative) so thick that it seems capable of being cut with a knife. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [phrase] > thick air you (or one) could cut (something) with a knife1892 1892 A. W. Pinero Magistrate i. 18 There's a fog on the line—you could cut it with a knife. 1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour (1955) xiii. 111 The smell was chiefly cabbage..and one could have cut it with a knife. 1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death v. 68 You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. knife-age n. (See age n. 7.) ΚΠ 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 94 The third patriarch begins the ‘knife-age and the axe-age with cloven shields’. knife-back n. ΚΠ 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 124 Shoulders..no thicker than a Knife Back. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 119/2 Between these knife-back ledges are plots of sea-green grass. 1966 Listener 2 June 789/1 Miniature trains of rubber-tyred, electrically-driven cars (with knife-back seats or flat decks for standing passengers) would run on set routes. knife-basket n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-basket, a tray for holding table-knives. knife-box n. ΚΠ 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vii. 59 An old-fashioned crabbed knife-box..on a dumb waiter. knife-case n. ΚΠ 1790 Pennsylvania Packet 6 Jan. 1/4 Steel and gilt hat buckles, and A few inlaid mahogany knife cases. a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 344 Nanny..was beginning to bustle into the parlour with the Tray & the Knife-case. 1971 Canad. Antiques Collector May 3 (advt.) Rare and elegant pair of circular inlaid mahogany Knife Cases of the highest quality. English. Circa 1800. knife-cut n. ΚΠ 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xvi. 134 With a knife-cut on the side of the cheek. knife-feat n. knife-girdle n. ΚΠ 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xi. 190 Knife-girdle of lion's hide. knife-haft n. ΚΠ 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xii. 211/2 The Skill of making fine Knives, and Knive-hafts. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak. knife-shaft n. knife-stab n. knife-stroke n. knife-thrust n. figurative ΚΠ 1894 Daily Tel. 27 June 6/7 That successful knife-thrust. 1959 Times 24 June 13/1 The knife-thrusts of Ibsen's dialogue. 1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 228 The first knife-thrusts of hunger had developed into a permanent ache of emptiness. knife-tray n. ΚΠ 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati xiii. 215 Among the principal articles are..knife trays. 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 168/1 Knife-trays. Japanned and filleted. knife-trick n. b. Objective, objective genitive, and instrumental. knife and-shoe-boy n. ΚΠ 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. vi. 159 A cook..and knife-and-shoe-boy. knife-cleaning n. ΚΠ 1869 Daily News 11 Dec. Knife-cleaning machine maker. knife-eater n. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 120 The medical journals..are numerous in their descriptions of London knife-eaters. knife-fancier n. knife-hafter n. ΚΠ 1864 Leeds Mercury 24 Oct. Richard Rhodes, knife hafter. knife-juggling n. ΚΠ 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vii. 202 Some terrible feats of knife-juggling. knife-maker n. ΚΠ 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A knife maker. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4082/4 William Dickenson,..Scizer or Knife-maker. knife-sticking n. knife-swallower n. ΚΠ 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 117 Cummings, the knife-swallower. knife-throwing n. ΚΠ 1923 G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen i. 28 If there's shooting or knife-throwing. c. Similative. knife-backed adj. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 382 Knife backt Sculptor, is a Sculptor with a thin edge on its back. knife-featured adj. ΚΠ 1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 638/2 A tall, lanky, sharp-boned, knife-featured fellow. knife-happy adj. ΚΠ 1961 Amer. Speech 36 147 Knife happy, overeager to resort to operation, said of a surgeon. 1964 New Statesman 21 Feb. 306/3 Sacha Pitoeff scowls away as a canapé-ferrying, knife-happy villain. knife-jawed adj. ΚΠ 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 349 The Knife-Jawed Fishes... A small genus..(Hoplognathus)..characterised by the jawbones having a sharp cutting edge. knife-like adj. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 315 Her great fault was her knife-like bow. 1860 Illustr. London News 14 Apr. 362/3 [The simoom's] passage leaves a narrow ‘knifelike’ track. knife-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 312 Compressed knife-shaped bill. knife-sharp adj. ΚΠ 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 73 Down from the spring the knife-sharp waters run. 1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 145 The wind came in, knife-sharp, from the North Sea. 1974 H. R. F. Keating Bats fly Up ix. 95 Ghote felt a knife-sharp happiness. knife-skewed adj. ΚΠ a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 41 Your slender attitude Trembles not exquisite like limbs knife-skewed. knife-stripped adj. ΚΠ 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. v. 74 Dogs..growling over the knife-stripped bones. C2. Special combinations. See also knife-board n., knife-edge n., knife-grinder n., knife-handle n., etc. knife-bar n. a bar bearing the knives in a cutting machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] > cutting part of > blade or edge of > in a machine > bar bearing knife-bar1870 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 312 By the arrangement of its parts the knife-bar is placed further forward than in most machines. 1882 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts V. 1603 Knife-bar, with diagonal slots, to give the lateral movement as it descends. knife-bayonet n. a combined knife and bayonet, carried when not in use in a sheath, a small sword-bayonet. knife-blade n. (a) the blade of a knife; (b) something sharp or pointed; (c) in Mountaineering, a kind of piton (see quot. 1968); also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > blade blade1330 tool1653 knife-blade1738 the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharp edge edgeOE facea1382 cutting edge1825 knife-edge1871 knife-blade1902 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of runner1688 runner ring1791 ice axec1800 alpenstock1829 rope1838 climbing-iron1857 piolet1868 snap-link1875 prickera1890 middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892 chock1894 glacier-rope1897 piton1898 run-out1901 belaying-pin1903 snap-ring1903 ironmongery1904 line1907 Tricouni1914 ice claw1920 peg1920 sling1920 ice piton1926 ice hammer1932 karabiner1932 rock piton1934 thread belay1935 mugger1941 running belay1941 piton hammer1943 sky-hook1951 etrier1955 pied d'éléphant1956 rope sling1957 piton runner1959 bong1960 krab1963 rurp1963 ice screw1965 nut1965 traverse line1965 jumar1966 knife-blade1968 tie-off1968 rock peg1971 whammer1971 Whillans whammer1971 Whillans harness1974 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory v. 129 To etch 100 or more Knife Blades at once. 1902 Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 3/2 The snowy knife-blade arète. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons i. 44 The knife-blade-like larvæ of the eel. 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting x. 49 All fingers, including the thumb, pressing tightly against each other to form a ‘knife blade’. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 106 A shallow basin gives the fish no shade, Dive as they will, there's flash of fin's knife-blade. 1968 P. Crew Encycl. Dict. Mountaineering 75/2 Knife-blade, a long thin piton. The name is mainly applied to chrome-molly pitons of this type. 1971 D. Haston in C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xvii. 206 It was a long and tortuous pitch done in one run-out on one of our big ropes. Firstly knee-deep mushy snow, then hard ice to exit, with one miserable knife-blade for protection. knife-boy n. a boy employed to clean table-knives. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant squiller1303 waynpainc1330 kitchener1332 custronc1400 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 swiller?a1500 dishwashera1529 lubber1538 kitchen maid1551 kitchen wencha1556 scull1566 washpot1570 kitchen stuff1582 scrape-trencher1603 kitchenist?1617 trencher-scraper1650 mediastine1658 drudge-pudding1737 marmiton1754 knife-boy1847 potwalloper1859 kitchen mechanic1861 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 43 The knife-boy was caught stealing a cold shoulder of mutton. knife-bracelet n. an iron bracelet with a sharp edge, used as a weapon by African natives. ΚΠ 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. (Royal Geogr. Soc.) 11 383 To guard themselves from capture, they wear a very sharp knife bracelet, when fighting they remove the sheath. knife-cleaner n. a machine for cleaning and polishing knives. ΚΠ 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. i. 12 A knife-cleaner that spoilt all the knives. 1891 Month 72 19 The apple-parer and knife-cleaner are American. knife-dagger n. an ancient form of one-edged dagger, having a long and heavy blade. knife-file n. a thin and tapering file, with a very sharp edge. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files jack file1678 knife-file1683 pillar file1683 using-file1683 carlet1688 grail1688 screw-rasp1688 riffler1797 quannet1809 safe edge1815 cross-cut1831 saw-file1846 shouldering file1846 warding file1846 found1874 side file1874 cant-filea1877 pin bone1936 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 382 Knife-file, a file with a thin edge. knife-fish n. a species of carp ( Cyprinus cultratus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type porgy1725 knife-fish1799 kurper1831 goniodont1854 headstander1955 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 176 The knife-fish. knife-grass n. a stout American sedge ( Scleria latifolia) with sharp-edged leaves. knife-guard n. a small metal piece or arm hinged to the back of a carving-fork to protect the hand against the slipping of the knife. knife-head n. ‘that piece in the cutting apparatus of a harvester to which the knife is fastened, and to which the pitman-head is connected’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884). † knife-hook n. Obsolete a sickle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle hooka700 sicklea1000 crookc1290 cycle1387 reap hook1388 reaping hook1578 knife-hooka1599 crotchet1833 a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xxxviii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2 In his one hand, as fit for haruests toyle, He held a knife-hook. Categories » knife-lanyard n. a lanyard to which a sailor's knife is fastened. knife-money n. an ancient Chinese currency consisting of bronze shaped like a knife. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > metal in specific shape larin1588 ring-money1759 wheel-money1861 bullet-money1879 spade-coin1892 spade-money1892 knife-money1901 1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 255/2 Between 1122 and 224 b.c. a very curious knife-money was used in the state of Tsi. This coin was of copper, shaped like a bill-hook, and about seven inches long, with the handle terminating in a ring, doubtless for the purpose of stringing the coins together. knife-plait n. = knife-pleat n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric > pleat plait1440 pinchc1450 plightc1450 pleata1529 tuck1532 lipea1600 box pleat1857 accordion pleat1884 organ pipe1890 knife-pleat1891 sunburst1897 pin tuck1902 knife-plait1911 1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Knife plait, a narrow overhanging plait. knife-pleat n. a narrow sharply creased pleat (in a garment, esp. a skirt). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric > pleat plait1440 pinchc1450 plightc1450 pleata1529 tuck1532 lipea1600 box pleat1857 accordion pleat1884 organ pipe1890 knife-pleat1891 sunburst1897 pin tuck1902 knife-plait1911 1891 Cassell's Family Mag. Nov. 753/2 ‘Knife-pleats’—as the Americans call them, to distinguish the single from the box-pleat—are turned towards the centre of the back [of the mantle]. 1927 Vogue 2 Nov. 14 French, Knife, Box, Accordion, Crystal and Combination Pleats can be made in any size. 1928 Daily Mail 31 July 1/2 Well made with smart knife pleats at sides. 1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour ii. 30/1 Knife pleats, series of pleats that turn in the same direction, are usually equal in width and are pressed straight to the hem. knife-pleated adj. pleated by hand with a blade of a knife (or by a machine producing the same result). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > pleated or folded rodded1562 wimpled1599 fulled1816 draped1833 folded1833 box-pleated1863 kilted1896 swathed1896 sunray-pleated1897 knife-pleated1905 permanently pleated1938 1905 Daily Chron. 29 May 8/5 In the case of a linen gown..it would be as well to do without the knife-pleated frills. 1937 Times 27 Sept. 19/2 A knife-pleated vermilion dinner gown. 1965 Punch 12 May p. xvii Knife-pleated travel skirts. knife-pleating n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric plaiting1400 pleating?c1475 plissé1869 kilting1880 knife-pleating1895 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 37/1 Fast Black Sateen Waists... 2 rows knife pleating from shoulder to belt. 1937 Times 27 Sept. 19/2 Knife pleating was used in several graceful gowns. knife-polisher n. = knife-cleaner n. knife-rest n. (a) a small pillow of metal or glass on which to rest a carving-knife or -fork at table; also, a support to keep a knife in position while it is being ground; (b) Military slang a barrier or obstruction composed of barbed wire and timber. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers treble1569 firewall1578 herisson1704 boat work1782 tambour1834 gabionage1849 knife-rest1858 skerm1861 stockade tambour1892 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > rests rest1680 slide-rest1839 table-tree1843 hand rest1849 knife-rest1858 tool-rest1864 turning-rest1889 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-rest. 1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 Knife-rests, chevaux de frise. 1921 F. W. Bewsher Hist. 51st Div. vii. 114 Stooks of cut strands of wire and over-turned knife-rests lay everywhere. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 138 Kniferest, the name at the Front for a portable X-shaped wire-entanglement framework, resembling a knife-rest, used for stopping gaps in wire-entanglements in No Man's Land. 1927 A. Keith-Falconer Oxfordshire Hussars 215 The two R.E. men with the torpedo at once blew the wire up (it was only one knife-rest thick) and the party crossed the trench. 1929 C. Edmonds Subaltern's War 54 A framework of stakes and barbed wire of the kind which solders call a ‘knife-rest’. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iv. 54 The entrance to the courtyard was blocked by a heavy ‘knife-rest’ barbed wire entanglement. 1964 A. Farrar-Hockley Somme ii. 83 Gaps had been filled with wired knife-rests and concertina rolls pegged down with iron pickets. knife-roller n. a (cotton-gin) roller furnished with sharp blades. ΚΠ 1896 W. S. Taggart Cotton Spinning I. 28 The seed cotton..comes into contact with a knife roller, formed of a number of knife discs. knife-scales n. the sides of the haft of a knife. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > handle > side(s) of handle scale1845 knife-scales1884 1884 Yorks. Post 9 Jan. ‘Knife-scales’ are those parts of a knife that form the sides of the handle..of horn, bone, ivory, or tortoiseshell. knife-sharpener n. an instrument, usually of steel, for sharpening knives. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Knife-sharpener. knife-smith n. a maker of knives, a cutler. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] > knife-maker knife-smith1738 bolo-maker1901 1738 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 131 Augustine Neusser, a knife-smith. 1886 J. Pendleton Hist. Derbysh. 195 The knifesmith's homely forge. † knife-stone n. Obsolete a hone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone whetstonec725 hone-stone1393 filourc1400 hone1440 rub1502 rubber1553 knife-stone1571 stone1578 oilstone1585 block1592 oil whetstone1601 greenstone1668 scythe-stone1688 water stone1703 sharping-stone1714 Scotch stone1766 honer1780 Turkey hone1794 polishing-slate1801 burr1816 Turkey stone1816 German hone1817 Arkansas1869 rag1877 rock1889 slipstone1927 1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 352 ij dosen knyff stones and iiij dosen rebstones. knife switch n. Electrical Engineering a switch consisting of a conducting blade or set of blades hinged at one end so that it may be swung out of or into a fixed contact or set of contacts at the other end. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > device to open or close circuit > [noun] > knife-switch knife switch1907 1907 H. H. Norris Introd. Study Electr. Engin. ix. 225 Open knife switches as described are not commonly used for circuit-breaking purposes above 500 volts and a few hundred amperes. 1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 235/1 Knife switch, a switch having a movable blade of copper or brass which makes a contact between two parallel contact springs. 1962 Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 726/2 Air-break isolators are made in a large variety of forms and range from the simple knife switch to those suitable for the highest transmission voltages. knife-thrower n. one who throws knives (spec. as a form of entertainment); also U.S. slang (see quot. 1905). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of knife-warper?c1225 saccularian1652 fire-eater1676 fire king1796 juggler1807 stone-eater1820 sword-swallower1826 fire-swallower1857 salamander1859 jadoo-wallah1890 knife-thrower1905 gully-gully man1930 1905 Smart Set Oct. 3/1 ‘They got a new knife-thrower up to the hotel,’ he announced... (A ‘knife-thrower’, be it known, is parlance for waitress.) 1953 P. G. Wodehouse Performing Flea 190 He would shoot all round you till you felt like a knife-thrower's assistant, but you were really quite safe. 1973 Listener 19 July 80/1 Electrons are fired at an object, and they trace its outline like a knife-thrower at a fair. knife-tool n. (a) a knife-shaped graver, (b) a minute disk used to cut fine lines in seal-engraving. † knife-warper n. Obsolete a knife-thrower, a juggler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of knife-warper?c1225 saccularian1652 fire-eater1676 fire king1796 juggler1807 stone-eater1820 sword-swallower1826 fire-swallower1857 salamander1859 jadoo-wallah1890 knife-thrower1905 gully-gully man1930 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 158 Is his cnif warpere & pleiȝeð mid swordes. knife-work n. the use of knives as weapons or instruments; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > [noun] snick or snee1670 snicking and sneeing1674 snickersneeing1698 daggering1830 bowieism1844 knife-work1845 knife-playing1855 bowie-kniving1861 1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 143 But none of your knife-work, le'me tell you. 1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxii. 255 Copying a canvas isn't the same thing as painting direct... It's the technique that's a nuisance... I don't feel handy with so much knife-work. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iii. vii. 141 It has been knife-work up there. 1955 J. Morrison in Austral. Short Stories (1963) 2nd Ser. 147 Collins the overseer did all the knife-work—castrating, ear-marking, and tailing. 1965 J. Lawlor in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 76 Then proceed to the knife-work of murdering to dissect, in order to sweep the vile body aside to make room for the certified masterpieces. knife-worm n. a caterpillar that cuts leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that eats or destroys plants leaf wormOE wortworma1382 cole-worm1468 cole-wort worm1552 devil's gold ring1552 canker-blossom1600 peach-worm1814 knife-worm1860 hop-dog1872 nettle grub1890 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 40 Such an one has curculios, borers, knife-worms. Draft additions September 2013 knife block n. a solid block of wood or other material containing slots into which kitchen knives are inserted up to the handles for safe storage and ready access; = block n. Additions. ΚΠ 1956 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Dec. 7/1 (advt.) Buy 6 knives..then get the Knife Block and Gift Box..free! 1992 Which? Aug. 434/2 There's no reason why the knife block shouldn't be handy. But they must be wary if young children visit. 2012 L. Wiehl & A. Henry Eyes of Justice 124 That knife block of Cassidy's had just two empty slots, right? And remember how you pointed out that there were a paring knife and a bread knife on the counter? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). knifev. Brit. /nʌɪf/, U.S. /naɪf/ Etymology: < knife n. (See also knive v.) 1. a. transitive. To use a knife to; to cut, strike, or stab with a knife. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > with a specific instrument sawa1225 kembc1480 falchiona1529 hatchet1603 jackknife1806 scissor1840 knive1851 knife1890 paper-knife1898 18.. Greatheart III. 174 I should get you pistoled or ‘knifed’ as sure as eggs are eggs for this insolence. 1865 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 3 Pirate..who was only ‘knifed’ just prior to winning at Doncaster, secured the judge's fiat easily at the finish. 1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 72 I knew better than to knife my oyster. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four (ed. 3) xi. 209 I would have thought no more of knifing him than of smoking this cigar. b. To lift (food) to the mouth with a knife. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat with knife knife1897 1897 Outing 30 460/1 These knowledge-seekers..knife their food, feeding both brain and stomach simultaneously. What they lost in manners, they gained in time. c. U.S. slang. To strike at secretly; to endeavour to defeat in an underhand way. ΚΠ 1888 Nation (N.Y.) 5 July 3/1 He speaks favourably of them in a leading article, and ‘knifes’ them slyly in paragraphs. 1892 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 5 Nov. 12/7 The idea is to knife Moise for Congress. 1895 Times 19 Dec. 8 The liberal knifing of Senators Lodge and Chandler will confirm wavering Irish voters to support the ‘Grand Old Party’. 2. Technology a. To spread or lay on (paint) with a knife. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > with a knife knife1887 1887 Church Times 24 June 516/3 The pigments..are knifed on to the canvas. b. Boot-making. To trim (soles and heels) with a knife. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > carry out other processes coupa1300 foot1465 unsole1598 close1801 galosha1817 top-piece1830 tree1856 sprig1885 knife1888 to knock up1905 spring1905 1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 18 May 17/3 For boots..1s. a dozen [was paid to the finisher] for knifing. 3. intransitive. To move as with the action of a knife cutting or passing through. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > sharply cut1609 cleave1655 knife1920 1920 W. Camp Football without Coach 107 If any of these three center men lunges through—‘knifes’ through, as it is called—he opens the door on either side of him. 1920 W. Camp Football without Coach 116 The first caution to be given a guard on defense is not to knife through. 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting xx. 120 Deflection of the blow by..knifing with the forearm. 1958 Times 25 Sept. 3/2 The principal advantage of the American yacht seemed to be her ability to sail closer to the wind and knife more smoothly through the water than Sceptre. 1965 Harper's Bazaar June 68/2 If you come across a Salon 1959..knife on to it. 1971 Flying (N.Y.) Apr. 30/3 Skirting the coast for awhile before knifing northwest to Bordeaux. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1100v.18..
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