Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A knife which revolves over wheels, as a band-saw or circular saw: used in splitting hides or skins.

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Examples

  • Men, and she struck the man that strove with me, and drove her belt-knife once and again through his arm, very savage and determined.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And whilst that the Maid did plait, and make gentle and happy talk with me, I presently to sit beside her, and had her belt-knife to my need; and therewith, when I had cut bark from a tree, I made

    The Night Land 2007

  • And I showed these to Mine Own, and truly she did nigh to weep upon them, because of her dear emotions and love, and did cut a small branch therefrom, with her belt-knife, and put the branch where she did put the piece of bark; and this to be for a remembrance and an after-delight and pondering.

    The Night Land 2007

  • I turned very speedy to the Maid, and she was there to my back, and had her belt-knife drawn in her hand; for she had it in her bosom, where she had put it when that I took her belt for the raft.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And she struck her belt-knife into the shoulder of the near Humpt Man; and the Man howled and turned, and she did leap to the side, and the Humpt Man ran at her.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And truly, she had cut the strap with her belt-knife, and did run away very swift among the trees.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Mine Own did run toward me; and she had in her hand my belt-knife which I did give her, before that time, to be a weapon for her defence.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Cerryl took almost half a small loaf of bread and used his white-bronze belt-knife to laboriously cut a chunk of the dry white cheese that seemed nearly as hard as the wood on which it rested.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • A long-knife, just a scant thumblength from qualifying as a sword, a belt-knife for less lethal use, a set of throwing-knives and arm-sheaths to hold them, and a tiny boot-knife that slipped invisibly into the side of a riding boot.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • He groped for a weapon, but the mages had been thorough; they'd even taken his belt along with his little belt-knife.

    Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

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