Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.]

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  • "While improvising a fishing pole for Katya from a willow sapling, I cut deep into the ball of my thumb with my barlow pocketknife, and I made a fuss about that."

    Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, p 42

    February 7, 2011

  • Les voyageurs of long, long ago

    Could carry but little cargo

    A fragile canoe,

    Held a musket or two,

    An axe and a handy barlow.

    May 6, 2018