pocketknife
See also: pocket knife
English
an assortment of pocketknives
Example of a pocket knife design that incorporates an elaborate tool set
Alternative forms
Noun
pocketknife (plural pocketknives)
- A knife with blades or tools that the user can fold or retract into its handle, and of a size small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket, especially when suited to heavier duty uses or ad hoc applications outdoors or in workshops.
- Synonym: penknife
- Hypernyms: folding knife, folder
- 1878, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad; About Magnanimous-Incident Literature:
- 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.
- 1944, Alfred Lief, Camillus: The Story of an American Small Business:
- The Army, the Navy, the Maritime Commission, and Lend-Lease demanded more and more pocketknives — for demolition kits, medical kits, aviators’ kits, electricians’ kits; knives with tools, knives with marlin spikes. The pocketknife attained a new status — as indispensable equipment for all men in uniform.
Translations
small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle — See also translations at penknife
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