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Definition of Pocketknives
1. pocketknife [n] - See also: pocketknife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketknives
Literary usage of Pocketknives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by United States, John Allan Mallory (1917)
"They were properly assessed 153, as pocketknives, or parts there- under the
provision for "scissors and of, partly or wholly manufactured. ..."
2. F. B. Vandergrift & Co.'s Hand-book of the United States Tariff: Conmtaining by Vandergrift, F. B., & co, United States (1894)
"RATE PENKNIVES, pocketknives or erasers, valued at more than 500 per dozen, and
not exceeding $1.00 per dozen, 25$ ad valorem, and per dozen, 250 PENKNIVES, ..."
3. Tariff ... Hearing[s] ... on H.R. 7456 by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (1921)
"Paragraph 354, pocketknives 40 Paragraph 355, table cutlery 20 Paragraph 359,
razors 40 Paragraph 357, scissors 40 Paragraph 361, pliers and nippers 20 It ..."
4. The Tariffs of 1890 and 1894 on Imports Into the United States, and Customs by United States (1894)
"Penknives, pocketknives, or erasers, of all kinds, valued at not more than thirty
cents per dozen, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued at more than ..."
5. Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Internal Revenue Laws, Etc by United States Dept. of the Treasury (1899)
"Pearl scales dutiable as parts of pocketknives under paragraph 153, act of
1897—Appeal from decision of Board of US General Appraisers (GA 4216, ..."
6. Exchange Fluctuations and Tariff Duties by United States Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (1921)
"The figures I have quoted have particular application to pocketknives, but the
same conditions in ... This condition isn't confined to pocketknives, is it ? ..."
7. Modern Tariff History: Germany, United States, France by Percy Ashley (1904)
"... pocketknives of all kinds, and razors shall pay 50 per cent, ad valorem" but
in the Act of 1890 that direction had grown into the following elaborate ..."
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