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Definition of Knives
1. n. pl. of Knife. See Knife.
Definition of Knives
1. Noun. (plural of knife) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knives
1. knife [n] - See also: knife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knives
Literary usage of Knives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"knives can be divided into two broad classifications as having blades that fold
into or ... For the technical make-up of knives see under article CUTLERY. ..."
2. American Agriculturist (1847)
"The running parts of this machine consist of a cylinder, on which are six spiral
knives, fastened by screws to six spiral wings, cast on the cylinder. ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"That it is naught for any man to give a pair of knives to his sweetheart, for
feare it cuts away all love that is betweene them. ..."
4. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"After his death his esophagus was found normal, l>ut his stomach wae eo distended
as to reach almost to the spine of the ilium, and knives were found in the ..."
5. Through the Dark Continent Or the Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes by Henry Morton Stanley (1878)
"We discovered an abundance of spears here and iron-ware of all kinds used by the
natives, such as knives, hammers, hatchets, tweezers, anvils of iron, or, ..."
6. The Theory of Light by Thomas Preston (1901)
"I caused the edges of two knives to be ground truly strait, ... The distance of
tl.r edges of the knives from one another at the distance of four inches ..."
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