clasp knife

British  

noun

1. a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle

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Example Sentences

A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was also a locker in the stern-sheets which was locked, and on David prising it open with his clasp knife, it was found to contain some fishing-line and hooks.

From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

Stealthily he had got his clasp knife out.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

I ran, opening a good, stout clasp knife that father had given me—or, if not "given" exactly, had seen me with, and not taken away from me.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The shrewd eyes withdrew their gaze and fixed themselves on the dried buckflesh which was being finely sliced with the sharp blade of the clasp knife.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills