butcher knife

Their favorite was sure of success; and nearly all political contests were decided by "butcher-knife influence."

They all had long hair and big whiskers and mustaches that looked as if they had been trimmed with a butcher-knife.

We next gave to each one of them a jack-knife; then to each one of the women a butcher-knife, for cutting up their seals.

He whipped out the butcher-knife which the Apache had flung at him and cropped off a lock of his hair.