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Definition of Pocketknife

1. Noun. A knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket.

Definition of Pocketknife

1. n. A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

Definition of Pocketknife

1. Noun. A small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle, and thereby be safely stowed in one’s pocket. ¹

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Definition of Pocketknife

1. [n -KNIVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketknife

Literary usage of Pocketknife

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Thirty Years' War on Silver: Money Scientifically Treated and Logically by Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald (1903)
"The identical old pocketknife used on the occasion mentioned has been laid away in a cabinet of curios " for the benefit of future generations," labeled ..."

2. Principles of Education Applied to Practice by Wallace Franklin Jones (1911)
"Now, in that pocketknife, there is an idea which created it, ... Had no mind ever conceived a pocketknife, we never could have had a pocketknife in the ..."

3. Exchange Fluctuations and Tariff Duties by United States Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (1921)
"Cutlery Co., Meriden, Conn., also chairman of the American pocketknife ... The only thing that saved the absolute wreck of the pocketknife industry was the ..."

4. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1920)
"The pocketknife as a Planimeter The planimeter, which is used by engineers and mechanics to measure irregular areas, is quite an expensive instrument. ..."

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