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penknife
noun as in pocket knife
Example Sentences
He stabbed her twice with a penknife, and one of the wounds was potentially fatal.
No you are not, he answered settling himself back in an easy position, and taking a penknife from his pocket to play with.
She was pruning a rose-bush with Bub's penknife, and when she heard him coming she wheeled, quivering.
On arriving at his house they found him rather unwell; he went about the room bent like a half-opened penknife.
I opened it with a penknife soaked in an antiseptic solution, and cleaned it thoroughly.
On the cover he had scratched an inscription with his penknife, "The Emperor to his little friend Julia."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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