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knife handle

knife handle is the alternative form 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

Forms of knife handle

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Questions about knife handle

What is knife handle the alternative form of?
Knife handle is the alternative form of knife-handle.

Words near knife handle in the dictionary

  1. knife fight
  2. knife fights
  3. knife fish
  4. knife game
  5. knife grinder
  6. knife handle
  7. knife handles
  8. knife money
  9. knife pleat
  10. knife pleats
  11. knife rest

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