penknife

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A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

Gather up cardboard, penknife, paste, and calico scraps, and make a dollhouse bed with your kids this holiday week.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2018

I tied a small silver penknife in the shape of a fish onto the laces of my Dr. Martens.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2018

In one meeting with MCA’s lawyers, Petty’s manager later said, Petty “had a penknife that he got out, opened the penknife and started cleaning his nails.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2017

With his penknife he whittled sticks to make pegs and fastened the board to the box with them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George