knife grinder

British  

noun

1. a person who makes and sharpens knives, esp an itinerant one

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Example Sentences

She found a job, but she never found her way back home, because on her return journey, a travelling knife grinder found her.

From BBC

He had his own cuttlebone that he rubbed the sides of his beak against like a knife grinder honing his blade.

From Literature

“Pot mender. Knife grinder. Willow-wand water-finder. Cut cork. Motherleaf. Silk scarves off the city streets. Writing paper. Sweetmeats.”

From Literature

In stalls lit by cones of fire, they demonstrated period-appropriate trades, such as blacksmith, basket maker and knife grinder.

From Washington Post

—Can any of your readers furnish a list of the best specimens of the English sapphic metre in the English language?—Every one is familiar with Canning's Needy Knife Grinder, in the poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, but I do not believe Dr. Watts's beautiful sapphic lines are as well known as they deserve.

From Project Gutenberg