Arkansas toothpick
Example Sentences
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Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, described Clay on a visit to the White House, wearing “with a sublimely unconscious air, three pistols and an Arkansas toothpick”—his Bowie knife.
“The butterfly knife is clearly more analogous to an ordinary pocketknife than to an Arkansas Toothpick or a Bowie knife. And none of the statutes cited by Hawaii prohibited the carry of pocketknives, much less their possession outright,” Bea wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
It is a “bowie,” of that kind known as an “Arkansas toothpick.”
From Project Gutenberg
He called this pleasant instrument an Arkansas toothpick.
From Project Gutenberg
The article I chiefly accused myself of forgetting was a stout English clasp-knife, with a large handle, a blade like an "Arkansas toothpick," and possessing the other useful appliances of picker, fleam, tweezers, lancet, and punch.
From Project Gutenberg
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