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chopping-knife

chopping-knife noun: a large, heavy-bladed knife designed primarily to be used with a chopping stroke.

Noun

chopping-knife (plural chopping-knives)

  1. A large, heavy-bladed knife designed primarily to be used with a chopping stroke.
    • After they had left, our men observed from their concealment that three had stayed behind with a small boat; and being driven to desperation by the sight of the plundering, one brave fellow swam off armed only with his parang, or chopping-knife, and coming on them unawares made a desperate attack...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 211

Forms of chopping-knife

pluralchopping-knives

Questions about chopping-knife

What does chopping-knife mean?
Chopping-knife means a large, heavy-bladed knife designed primarily to be used with a chopping stroke.
What part of speech is chopping-knife?
Chopping-knife is a noun.
What is the plural of chopping-knife?
The plural of chopping-knife is chopping-knives.

Words near chopping-knife in the dictionary

  1. chopping out
  2. chopping stump
  3. chopping up
  4. chopping-board
  5. chopping-boards
  6. chopping-knife
  7. chopping-knives
  8. choppings
  9. Choppington
  10. Chopps
  11. choppy

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