knife-point
Britishnoun
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the tip of a knife blade
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under threat of being stabbed
Example Sentences
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Benedikt Roezl, one of the more colorful figures described in the exhibition, blazed a solitary trail and refused to carry a firearm, even after being robbed at gun- or knife-point 17 times.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016
It was part of Hitchcock's provocative primness that, after this meticulous outrage, he declared with wide eyes and wider vowels that you couldn't actually see a knife-point piercing flesh.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010
The camera is manifestly too far away to show unmistakably what Maud picks up—say, a broken-off knife-point.
From Writing the Photoplay by Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)
He dug this out with his knife-point, and the water began spurting in.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
"Sometimes," he remarked, "when ye can't find a stone, a Pine knot will do—ye kin make the socket-hole with a knife-point."
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson
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