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pocket knife

pocket knife is the alternative spelling of pocketknife.

Meaning of pocketknife

Noun

pocketknife (plural pocketknives)

  1. A knife small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket; usually a folding knife (with blades or tools that the user can fold or retract into the handle).
    • Jimmy had a pocketknife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour.1878, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad; About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
    Synonyms:
    jack-knife

Forms of pocket knife

pluralpocket knives

Questions about pocket knife

What is pocket knife the alternative spelling of?
Pocket knife is the alternative spelling of pocketknife.

Words near pocket knife in the dictionary

  1. pocket gopher
  2. pocket gophers
  3. pocket handkerchief
  4. pocket handkerchiefs
  5. pocket handkerchieves
  6. pocket knife
  7. pocket knives
  8. pocket lamp
  9. pocket lamps
  10. pocket light
  11. pocket lights

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