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Definition of Penknives
1. penknife [n] - See also: penknife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penknives
Literary usage of Penknives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1848)
"Nowill and another. tation with the public on account of the said good quality,
manufacture, getting up, and finish of the said penknives and pocket-knives ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"... with it wear much longer ; the pegs are not bent by it, and the heads are not
wrenched off as they are when the tacks are extracted by penknives, etc. ..."
3. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"... and the consequent Decline of penknives—Fatigue after Pleasure, &c., &c.
September 9,1854. SHALL we chat of our indiscretions of appetite, ..."
4. French Verbs and Verbal Idioms in Speech by Baptiste Méras, Émile Jules Méras (1909)
"There are brushes and penknives; use them. 38. If the waiter is not there, help
yourself. 39. There are pencils; you can use them. 40. ..."
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