case-knife

He was clad like a fisherman, in jacket and trousers of the blue cloth commonly used by seamen, and had a Dutch case-knife, like that of a Hamburgh skipper, stuck into a broad buff belt, which seemed as if it might occasionally sustain weapons of a description still less equivocally calculated for violence.

Redgauntlet 2008

He looked at her, stirred his tea and took two or three gulps, then cut at his piece of hot steak with his case-knife, and said, eating:

Our Mutual Friend 2004

In the other he had the sharp case-knife we used for slicing bacon; and he was industriously and realistically trying to take Bill's scalp, according to the sentence that had been pronounced upon him the evening before.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

In one of the ravines leading up from the narrow beach a bayonet was found firmly thrust into the clay about six feet from the bottom, which had evidently been used as a fixture by which the soldiers drew themselves up to the top of the bank; and on the plateau a circle of boulders with the ashes of a fire was found in ploughing, together with a case-knife.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

To accomplish the work with ease and success, a French boning-knife is desirable, but in the absence of one a sharp-pointed case-knife may do.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

She flung the case-knife upon the table, and began vigorously dusting the flour from her hands.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

As a man slashed at Roger with a case-knife, laying open a long gash in his cheek, Roger fired a shot from his pistol, and the fellow pitched forward and lay still except for his limbs, which twitched sickeningly.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

With these words Salina spread down the crust of her pie, and lifting the platter on one hand cut around it with a flourish of the case-knife, and began a pinching the edges with a determined pressure of the lips, as if she had quite made up her mind that every indentation of her thumb should leave its fellow on uncle Nat's insensible heart.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

The scar where the case-knife had slashed his cheek so long ago stood starkly out from the dull red of his face.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

A white-handled case-knife, presumably that used to cut Nanny Price's throat, was seen on a table by the three women who, with Sarah herself, were first on the scene of the murder.

She Stands Accused 1935