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Definition of Jackknives
1. jackknife [n] - See also: jackknife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackknives
Literary usage of Jackknives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rand-McNally Primary Arithmetic: Principles and Processes Derived by by Edwin Crawford Hewett (1896)
"8 jackknives and 5 jackknives are jackknives. 4 trees and trees are 13 trees.
7 lambs and lambs are 13 lambs. 13 kites less 5 kites are kites. ..."
2. Taxation of Land Values: An Explanation with Illustrative Charts, Notes and by Louis Freeland Post (1915)
"And thus if he makes jackknives and eats wheat, the wheat is really as much the
produce of his labor as if he had grown it for himself and left ..."
3. Free Trade Vs. Protection by Amasa Mason Eaton (1913)
"Take the case of two boys, A. and B., who swap jackknives. ... Do the two boys
cease to gain something by their exchange of jackknives? ..."
4. Outlines of Lectures on the Taxation of Land Values: An Explanation with by Louis Freeland Post (1912)
"And thus if he makes jackknives and eats wheat, the wheat is really as much the
produce of his labor as if he had grown it for himself and left ..."
5. A Selection from the Miscellaneous Historical Papers of Fifty Years by Franklin Bowditch Dexter (1918)
"How else can be explained such wholesale exports from Boston as a dozen jackknives
at a time, repeatedly, half a dozen hour-glasses, half a dozen catechisms ..."
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