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bowie-knife

bowie-knife is the alternative form of Bowie knife.

Meaning of Bowie knife

Noun

Bowie knife (plural Bowie knives)

  1. A large sheath knife, usually of clip point style and usually with large guards at the ricasso.
    • To ensure good behavior, the slaveholder relies on the whip; […] to imbrute and destroy his manhood, he relies on the whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the pillory, the bowie-knife, the pistol, and the blood-hound.1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 430

Forms of bowie-knife

pluralbowie-knives

Questions about bowie-knife

What is bowie-knife the alternative form of?
Bowie-knife is the alternative form of Bowie knife.

Words near bowie-knife in the dictionary

  1. bowhunts
  2. bowie
  3. Bowie County
  4. bowie knife
  5. bowie knives
  6. bowie-knife
  7. Bowiean
  8. bowieite
  9. Bowieites
  10. bowies
  11. Bowiesque

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