butcher knife

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noun

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

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Origin of butcher knife

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15

Words nearby butcher knife

Butazolidin, butch, butcher, butcherbird, butcher block, butcher knife, butcher linen, butcherly, butcher paper, butcher's, butcher's-broom

How to use butcher knife in a sentence

I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
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Wielding a curved knife, a young man navigates past the aging structures and into the forest.
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But in the next instant, Peters is stepping back to the table and snatching up the knife.
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“Stand the f--- away from the knife right now, man,” the cop says.
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A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
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Pearson flung his knife and fork at it, having forgotten to drop those light weapons when he leaped up.
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Black Sheep looked up at Harry's throat and then at a knife on the dinner-table.
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A knife would hurt, but Aunty Rosa had told him, a year ago, that if he sucked paint he would die.
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The servant-girl came up from the kitchen, took the knife away, and consoled him.
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