| 单词 | sheath-knife |
| 释义 | > as lemmassheath-knife 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. sheath-knife sheath-knife n. a dagger-like knife encased in a sheath. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > carried in a sheath case knife1673 parang1820 sheath-knife1837 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of anlacec1300 misericord1324 bodkin1386 baselardc1390 popperc1390 wood-knife1426 spudc1440 pavade1477 bistoury1490 skene1527 dudgeon1548 sword dagger1567 machete1575 kris1589 bum dagger1596 stillado1607 stiletto1611 steelet1616 hanjar1621 pisaa1640 jockteleg1642 khanjar1684 bayonet1692 kuttar1696 parazonium1751 skene-ochles1754 scalping-knife1759 snick-a-snee1760 manchette1762 snickersnee1775 guard-dagger1786 boarding knife1807 scalp-knife1807 kukri1811 skene-dhu1811 parang1820 stylet1820 belt knife1831 bowie-knife1836 scalper1837 sheath-knife1837 toothpick1837 tumbok lada1839 snick-and-snee knife1843 tickler1844 bowie1846 toad-sticker1858 simi1860 scramasax1862 kinjal1863 left-hander1869 main gauche1869 aikuchi1875 tanto1885 toad-stabber1885 cinquedea1897 trench knife1898 puukko1925 panga1929 quillon dagger1950 flick-knife1957 ratchet knife1966 sai1973 ratchet1975 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. i. 234 She purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 165 The leather belt with the sheath-knife at the back. < as lemmas |
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