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knife-handles

knife-handles is the plural of knife-handle.

Meaning of knife-handle

Noun

knife-handle (plural knife-handles)

  1. The grip of a knife.
    • Please turn that cardboard face down, and take this one, and compare it searchingly by the magnifier, with the fatal signature upon the knife-handle, and report your finding to the court.”1894, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Harper and Brothers, page 197

Questions about knife-handles

What is knife-handles the plural of?
Knife-handles is the plural of knife-handle.

Words near knife-handles in the dictionary

  1. knife-edge
  2. knife-edge effect
  3. knife-edge effects
  4. knife-edges
  5. knife-handle
  6. knife-handles
  7. knife-rest
  8. knife-rests
  9. knife-twister
  10. knife-twisters
  11. knifeblade

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