Definitions for: Knife


[n] edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
[n] a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
[n] any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
[v] use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"



Webster (1913) Definition: Knife, n.; pl. Knives. [OE. knif, AS. cn[=i]f; akin to
D. knijf, Icel. kn[=i]fr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.]
1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel
and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle,
but of many different forms and names for different uses;
as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife,
pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..

2. A sword or dagger.

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. --Shak.

Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge ({Scleria
latifolia}), having leaves with a very sharp and hard
edge, like a knife.

War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the
last extremity.


Knife, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knifed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Knifing.]
1. (Hort.) To prune with the knife.

2. To cut or stab with a knife. [Low]


Knife, v. t.
Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand
means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a
candidate of one's own party). [Slang, U. S.]

Synonyms: stab, tongue

See Also: arm, barong, bayonet, bayonet, blade, bolo, bolo knife, Bowie knife, bread knife, butcher knife, carving knife, case knife, chopper, cleaver, dagger, drawknife, drawshave, edge tool, flick-knife, haft, helve, hunting knife, injure, knife blade, letter opener, linoleum cutter, linoleum knife, machete, matchet, meat cleaver, panga, paperknife, parang, parer, paring knife, peak, pocket knife, pocketknife, point, poniard, projection, pruning knife, sheath knife, shiv, slicer, sticker, surgical knife, table knife, tip, trench knife, weapon, weapon system, wound, yataghan

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