单词 | hacking knife |
释义 | > as lemmashacking knife hacking knife n. a stout knife, esp. one used for chopping or to remove hard putty from a window frame. ΚΠ 1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. sig. U.viii Yt here openli chop your hackinge knyfe into your own sower herbes. 1763 Monthly Rev. Dec. 545 The string thereof cut, possibly by the sharp edge of a hacking-knife. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 586 The hacking knife is for cleaning out the old putty from the rebates where squares are to be stopped in. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 230 I sometimes saw a fellow..carrying brushes and paint and sometimes glazing tools; hacking knife, glazing knife, toffee hammer, [etc.]. 2005 P. Barua State at War in S. Asia v. xii. 231 Their equipment was quite primitive and included bows and arrows..and dahs, or large hacking knives. < as lemmas |
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