Noun: sheath-knife
| Singular | sheath-knife |
| Plural | sheath-knives |
Sample Sentences
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Sailors' and fishermen's sheath-knives.
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Sailors' sheath-knives. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn.
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29428. Sheath and belt, with "law-abiding" sheath-knife. First quality.
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29426. Sheath and belt. Second quality.
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29427. Sheath and belt, with "law-abiding" sheath-knife. Third quality.
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The "law-abiding" sheath-knife is round at the tip of the blade, which is also thick and dull. [1879, United States National Museum, “Section B, Chapter I”, in Bulletin of the United States National Museum. No. 14; Catalogue of the Collection to Illustrate the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the United States, page 74:]
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But when he saw this he loosened his sheath-knife and held it ready. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 159:]
Nouns inflected like sheath-knife
home life,
social life,
tripewife,
kitchen knife,
sushi knife,
everyday life,
working life,
boywife,
mora knife,
clasp knife,
trench knife,
flick-knife,
master butter knife,
painting knife,
deer horn knife,
Yakutian knife,
sheath-knife,
old wife,
survival knife,
breadknife, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology