head knife
noun
1A knife with a semicircular blade set transversely to the handle, used chiefly in leather-working.
2A knife or machete having a blade with a backward-pointing spike, used by some headhunting tribes in Samoa and the Philippines; compare head-axe (now rare ).
Origin
Late 17th century.
- weaponization
- weaponize
- weaponless
- weapon of mass destruction
- weaponry
- weapons-grade
- wear
- wearability
- wearable
- wearable art
- wearer
- weariless
- wearily
- weariness
- wearing
- wearing course
- wearingly
- wearisome
- wearisomely
- wearisomeness
- wear off
- wear on
- wear oneself to a shadow
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve
- wear-resistant