pocketknife
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Ward searched through his pockets, pulling out two lighters, and told McWhorter he might have a pocketknife.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
Diatomite is really strange stuff—you can cut it with a pocketknife or a spade or a chainsaw.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
With the famously all-purpose mutability of a Swiss pocketknife, ever at the ready, it made manifest the multiple allusions offered in Oldenburg’s art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Donovan used a pocketknife to free Reverte, then instructed him to get started.
From Slate ● May 29, 2021
I had a dandy pocketknife, and a darn good dog; that was about all a boy could hope for in those days.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Or, they exempted pocketknives, Bea said — meaning, in his estimation, that they would not justify a modern ban on a butterfly knife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
My colleague developed a technique of cutting blocks with his chainsaw, and then the rest of us would sit around with our field pocketknives and split them.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
There are hoodies, sneakers, and off-the-wall branded goods, from pocketknives to fire extinguishers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 28, 2016
The site also sells ties, T-shirts and pocketknives.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2013
But they also talked about games at recess, and friends who shared candy at lunchtime or loaned them pocketknives to carve with.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
