dinner knife
noun
a knife used in eating the main course of a meal.
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Example sentences from the Web for dinner knife
He had a dinner-knife in his hand, and, as I saw he was dangerous, I tried to keep the table between us.
Dracula|Bram StokerThe blades are themselves seven inches of this length, and are flat, like the blade of a dinner-knife brought to a point.
The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon|Samuel White BakerThe young man, tilting back in his chair, rapped on the table with the handle of his dinner-knife.
The Burning Spear|John Galsworthy