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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A knife or dagger; specifically, a long, straight double-edged weapon carried in the middle ages by persons not of the military class, as on journeys, or by foot-soldiers and attendants on a camp.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete A knife; a dagger.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A knife; a dagger.

Etymologies

  1. French (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Ohé les tueurs, à la balle ou au couteau tuez vite!”

    WWII soldiers remembrance

  • “Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)”

    brouillard - French Word-A-Day

  • “Ohé les tueurs, à la balle ou au couteau tuez vite !”

    WWII soldiers remembrance

  • “I jumped out of the carriage, pitched fraternity to the devil, and, betwixt desperation and something very like shame, began to cut away with a couteau de chasse, which I had provided in case of necessity. —”

    Saint Ronan's Well

  • “This was crossed by another shoulder belt, to which was hung a hunting knife, or couteau de chasse.”

    Quentin Durward

  • ““And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?” said”

    The Bride of Lammermoor

  • “Oui, prenez un couteau, retirez-en la lame et le manche, il vous reste le concept.”

    Pro-Israel Tunisian Gets Bloggers Buzzing

  • “His walking boots were of cordovan leather; his cloak of good Scottish grey, which served to conceal a whinger, or couteau de chasse, that hung at his belt, and was his only offensive weapon, for he carried in his hand but a rod of holly.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth

  • “Une japonaise avec son accent a couper au couteau reconnait meme "B" la ou d'autre me prenne pour un "L mort vivant" ...”

    pinku-tk Diary Entry

  • “They plunged headlong (and uttering the most frightful bad language) into some pit where Jack came with his smart couteau de chasse and whipped their brutal heads off.”

    Roundabout Papers

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