paperknife

/ ˈpeɪpəˌnaɪf /

noun

1. a knife with a comparatively blunt blade, esp one of wood, bone, etc, for opening sealed envelopes

Example Sentences

The paperknife went one way, Dorothy’s red Tam another, as she sprang up to confront the most masterful looking woman she had ever seen.

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He sat drumming on his desk with the antique stainless steel spatula he used as a paperknife.

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Do not use too much paste, and crease the paper carefully along, and slightly into, the 'joint' with an ivory paperknife.

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Sir Francis had yawned capaciously once or twice, and had played absently with a large ink-stained paperknife,—signs that his mind was wandering somewhat from the point at issue.

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He held an ivory paperknife, which he kept bending across his knee, and of a sudden the thing snapped in two.

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