Penknife

ahd-5
  • noun. A small pocketknife.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small pocket-knife: so called from its former use in making and mending quill pens.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small pocketknife; a small knife with a blade which folds into the hand. Penknives often incorporate other tools such as corkscrews, and are generally smaller than pocketknives as a group.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens
    • Word Usage
    "But his penknife was a tiny thing, suitable for sharpening quills and cutting paper, not to doing battle with monstrous stone dogs."
    Form
    Swiss Army knife  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pocketknife  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    awl  carving-knife  chisel  gimlet  hacksaw  
    variant
    penknives  
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.