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Knife-handle   /naɪf-hˈændəl/   Listen
Knife-handle

noun
1.
Marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell.  Synonyms: jackknife clam, razor clam.






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"Knife-handle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last moment. To-day Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller, and James Stillman would each give five millions from his private fortune if this seemingly unimportant detail had then been provided for. Its neglect is the bloody finger-print on the knife-handle of the murderer, it is the burglar's footprint in the snow. In this case it furnishes the evidence of the ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... protective sheath or cap. But what did it protect? Presumably a point or edge of some kind. Could this be a pocket-knife of any sort, such as a small stencil-knife? No; the material was too fragile for a knife-handle. It could not be an etching-needle for the same reason; and it was not a surgical appliance—at least it was not like any surgical instrument that was known ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman



Words linked to "Knife-handle" :   jackknife clam, clam, Ensis, genus Ensis



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