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clasp-knives

clasp-knives is the plural of clasp-knife.

Meaning of clasp-knife

Noun

clasp-knife (plural clasp-knives)

  1. Synonym of folding knife.
    • ...there is yet ample evidence of the existence of clasp-knives ages before the production of the Canterbury Tales. Among Etruscan antiquities in the Bronze Room of the British Museum are several clasp-knives, some of them with bone, others with bronze hafts, their blades being of iron — a metal...1859, Journal of the British Archaeological Association
    Synonyms:
    folding knife

Questions about clasp-knives

What is clasp-knives the plural of?
Clasp-knives is the plural of clasp-knife.

Words near clasp-knives in the dictionary

  1. clasp lock
  2. clasp locker
  3. clasp lockers
  4. clasp locks
  5. clasp-knife
  6. clasp-knives
  7. claspbract sedge
  8. clasped
  9. clasper
  10. claspered
  11. claspers

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