penknife
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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
I got her a penknife, and she got me a Tech Deck - you know, those finger-sized skateboards you used to play with in school?
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2017
He came back and carefully made us each a flute with the tip of his penknife.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The journeys are constructed to echo one another; in each, the voyagers carry “a hipflask, two penknives, matches & candles,” as well as a copy of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller “Rogue Male.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
They began excavating the ceratopsian with penknives and brushes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
All three studies featured a phase in which the two groups competed for scarce resources such as prized penknives.
From Nature ● Apr. 16, 2018
We substitute data transmission, the Internet, and Web services for quill pens, penknives, and illuminated script these days.
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2012
At Sikandra, Akbar’s tomb, they gaze at gilded frescoes in the entryway, chipped, ransacked, burned, the gems gouged out with penknives, graffiti etched into the stone.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
