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That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

A large knife for carving.

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.] Crobb.

hite to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. Chinsing iron, a light calking iron.

ng block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.] Contek with bloody knife. Chaucer.

A knife; a dagger.

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

ract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping…

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

A knife. [Obs.] Bale.