Knife switch

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• Switch

  ·vi To walk with a jerk. II. Switch ·vt To trim, as, a hedge. III. Switch ·vt To shift to another ...

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• Knife

  ·noun A sword or dagger. II. Knife ·vt To prune with the knife. III. Knife ·vt To cut or stab with...

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• Knife

  1) Heb. hereb, "the waster," a sharp instrument for circumcision (Josh. 5:2, 3, lit. "knives of flin...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• knife

  An old name for a dagger: thus Lady Macbeth "That my keen knife see not the wound it makes." ...

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• Knife

  The knives of the Egyptians, and of other nations in early times, were probably only of hard stone, ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Point switch

  ·add. ·- A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected...

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• Split switch

  ·add. ·- = Point switch. ...

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• Underload switch

  ·add. ·- A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, ...

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• Bowie knife

  ·- A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; — ...

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• Case knife

  ·- A knife carried in a sheath or case. II. Case knife ·- A large table knife; — so called from be...

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• Drawing knife

  ·noun ·Alt. of <<Drawknife>>. ...

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• Knife-edge

  ·noun A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving...

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• Spalding knife

  ·- A spalting knife. ...

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• Spalting knife

  ·- A knife used in splitting codfish. ...

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• bowie-knife

  (Pron. [boo-ee]). A knife from ten to fifteen inches long and about two inches broad, so named after...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• knife-gate

  a run at a friend's table. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• jack-knife

  A horn-handled clasp-knife with a laniard, worn by seamen. ...

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• spalding-knife

  A knife used for splitting fish in Newfoundland. ...

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• hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

  Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

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