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Definition of clasp knife in English: clasp knifenoun A knife with a blade that folds into the handle. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps the most diagnostic type is the clasp knife that is frequently found on eighteenth-century French sites throughout interior North America.
- Pulling worn roping gloves over his hands, he took out a clasp knife.
- Abruptly, I remember the stranger's last words, and dig into my pocket, drawing forth the clasp knife, wordlessly holding it out for her.
- It was a clasp knife with a broken hasp and it swung open with the sound of a cockroach's shell crunching underfoot.
- Being thus provided with an opportunity to ruminate it was impossible not to think of the happy recovery of my clasp knife.
Definition of clasp knife in US English: clasp knifenounˈklasp ˈˌnīf A knife with a blade that folds into the handle. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps the most diagnostic type is the clasp knife that is frequently found on eighteenth-century French sites throughout interior North America.
- It was a clasp knife with a broken hasp and it swung open with the sound of a cockroach's shell crunching underfoot.
- Pulling worn roping gloves over his hands, he took out a clasp knife.
- Abruptly, I remember the stranger's last words, and dig into my pocket, drawing forth the clasp knife, wordlessly holding it out for her.
- Being thus provided with an opportunity to ruminate it was impossible not to think of the happy recovery of my clasp knife.
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