knife grinder

noun

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

Example Sentences

A knife-grinder came along, this morning, and he did appear to be a master hand.

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To resume my story (which is very like that of the knife-grinder).

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A score of voices hastened to enlighten him, but before it was well done, the eager knife-grinder's voice rose above the rest.

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The knife-grinder—though a stranger to the local politics, and totally uninterested in them—had listened with the rest.

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Jonitza turned hastily and saw a knife-grinder who, having caught the remark, made a grimace at the boys.

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