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noun

a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.

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Origin of fruit knife

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby fruit knife

fruitful, fruiting body, fruition, fruitive, fruit jar, fruit knife, fruitless, fruitlet, fruit machine, fruit ranch, fruit salad

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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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The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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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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Fruit-trees are clearly too scarce, though Cherries in abundance were offered for sale as we passed.
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In the community her father was the wealthiest man, having made his fortune in the growing of potatoes and fruit.
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The natives of Guiana use a tube or pipe not unlike a cheroot, made from the rind of the fruit of a species of palm.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for fruit knife

fruit knife

noun

a small stainless knife for cutting fruit

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