meat-knife

The marlinespike was not found; but he took from the cook a long meat-knife, and brought both negro and knife forward to me.

The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

He held a huge meat-knife in one hand, and a basting-ladle in the other.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

If now and then some horrible crime in the Chinese colony, a murder of such hideous ferocity as one I have a very vivid recollection of, where the murderer stabbed his victim (both Chinamen, of course) in the back with a meat-knife, plunging it in to the hilt no less than seventeen times, arouses the popular prejudice to a suspicion that it was “ordered, ” only the suspected themselves are to blame, for they appear to rise up as one man to shield the criminal.

IX. Chinatown 1890

If you stir, traitor, —” she was holding a heavy meat-knife at the fugitive’s throat, — “I’ll slit your weasand like a chicken.”

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903