knife-handle

English

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Noun

knife-handle (plural knife-handles)

  1. The grip of a knife.
    • 1894, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Harper and Brothers, page 197
      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.”
    • 1969, Alan Hunter, Gently Sinking, Cassell & Company, page 41
      She could guess, and she saw the knife-handle, but she didn’t know.
    • 1940, Flinders Petrie and David Lightbody, Wisdom Of The Egyptians, page 76
      The earliest of their known productions, the ivory knife-handle in the Louvre has perfect figures of dogs, goat, ibex and cheetah, unsurpassed in truth and spirit.
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