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bread knife

bread knife noun: a knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard.

bread knife: a knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard
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Noun

bread knife (plural bread knives)

  1. A knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard.

Forms of bread knife

pluralbread knives
alternative formbreadknife

Questions about bread knife

What does bread knife mean?
Bread knife means a knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard.
What part of speech is bread knife?
Bread knife is a noun.
What is the plural of bread knife?
The plural of bread knife is bread knives.

Words near bread knife in the dictionary

  1. bread flours
  2. bread god
  3. bread heel
  4. bread jellies
  5. bread jelly
  6. bread knife
  7. bread knives
  8. bread line
  9. bread lines
  10. bread machine
  11. bread machines

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