KNIFE

knife

(noun) edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

knife

(noun) a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

tongue, knife

(noun) any long thin projection that is transient; “tongues of flame licked at the walls”; “rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark”

knife, stab

(verb) use a knife on; “The victim was knifed to death”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

knife (plural knives)

A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

Verb

knife (third-person singular simple present knifes, present participle knifing, simple past and past participle knifed)

(transitive) To cut with a knife.

(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

(intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.

(transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.

(transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut

Anagrams

• Finke

Source: Wiktionary

Knife, n.; pl. Knives. Etym: [OE. knif, AS. cnif; akin to D. knijf, Icel. knifr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.]

1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

2. A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. Shak. Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife.

– War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.

Knife, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knifed; p. pr. & vb. n. Knifing.]

1. (Hort.)

Definition: To prune with the knife.

2. To cut or stab with a knife. [Low]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition