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chopping-knives

chopping-knives is the plural of chopping-knife.

Meaning of chopping-knife

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

Questions about chopping-knives

What is chopping-knives the plural of?
Chopping-knives is the plural of chopping-knife.

Words near chopping-knives in the dictionary

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

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