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butcher knife

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noun

a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.

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Nearby words

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Origin of butcher knife

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for butcher knife

Their favorite was sure of success; and nearly all political contests were decided by "butcher-knife influence."
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln|Ward H. Lamon
They all had long hair and big whiskers and mustaches that looked as if they had been trimmed with a butcher-knife.
With the Indians in the Rockies|James Willard Schultz
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.
Left on Labrador|Charles Asbury Stephens
He whipped out the butcher-knife which the Apache had flung at him and cropped off a lock of his hair.
Wunpost|Dane Coolidge

"Well, I have," rejoined the other, turning his meat with the point of his butcher-knife.
In the Old West|George Frederick Ruxton