paperknife
IPA: pˈeɪpɝnaɪf
noun
- A knife for cutting paper or opening envelopes.
paper knife
IPA: pˈeɪpɝnaɪf
noun
- A sharp tool for cutting open the pages of hand-produced books where the folding of printed sheets has created closed edges.
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Examples of "paperknife" in Sentences
Examples of "paper-knife" in Sentences
- He had let the paper-knife fall at his feet, a malachite blade with gold mounting, which he had used to cut the leaves of the book.
- He sat there for fully half an hour without a sound except the dull click of the paper-knife against his lower teeth still firm as rocks.
- The lower mandible, as thin as a paper-knife, is put into the water while the bird skims along the surface, and scoops up any little insects it meets.
- He went into his sanctum — the room where he had thought out the future of countless pieces of house property — took up a paper-knife and sat down in an armchair.
- Certainly I did, and the banker split the seal with an ebony-handled paper-knife, and very soon unlocked the steel-ribbed box, whose weight was chiefly of itself.
- The public prosecutor took up his paper-knife and tapped it against the edge of the table with one of the tricky movements familiar to thoughtful men when they give themselves up to meditation.
- Lightly armed with a paper-knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day.
- I had caught up the letter, and stood near the candle to soften the wax and lift the cover with a small sharp paper-knife, when it flashed on my mind that my cousin would condemn and scorn what I was doing.
- “In those days a red scarf, a long cloak, a big hat with a plume stolen from a bonnet, a paper-knife dagger, a scrap of tinsel from a button card, a little gold paper for royalty, tissue paper stretched on wire hoops for fairy wings, produced superb effects.”
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