penknife

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St Davids Penknife Club, which arranges the Whitesands swim, said it was "devastated" at having to cancel the New Year's Day event.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021

Organised by St Davids Penknife Club, the event is very much like its city home - small but incredibly popular.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2017

Bride, Penknife, An Owl.—Jealousy terminates an unhappy engagement.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

Moreover, in searching his Pockets a Razor was found on him, with a Penknife, Scissars, and the like Instruments.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"You have done as I knew you would," said the king once more; and the cat received the Order of the Royal Penknife, and the care of the Royal Shoe-brush.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Dodge, Mary Mapes