A man who uses a knife to commit a crime.
Example sentencesExamples
- Northumbria Police issued photographs of her injuries as part of a public appeal to track down the crazed knifeman.
- The woman was ordered out of her high-powered sports car by masked knifemen.
- A woman abducted by a knifeman in a busy Bolton street and forced to drive to Leeds was today recovering at home.
- On Saturday, a security guard was threatened by a masked knifeman and made to wait in a room for eight hours while thieves stole electrical goods worth £50,000.
- A knifeman and thief is today starting a three-year jail term for stabbing a householder in the stomach in a street confrontation over a garage break-in.