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pocketknife

noun as in pocket knife

noun as in Swiss Army knife

noun as in switchblade knife

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As Mom signed me in to camp, I watched the kids stab at trees with pocketknives.

He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.

One of the men, 22, of Maple Valley, punched her several times before taking out a pocketknife and repeatedly stabbing her, police said.

“We were given a free pocketknife during our trainings, and I had that pocketknife on me, so I was able to cut her out of her seatbelt,” he said in a phone interview on Saturday.

Police searched Pearson, discovered a pocketknife and took her into custody.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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