Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large knife, with a wide blade and a sharp barb or hook at the back of the blade, used in cutting sugar-cane.
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Examples
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You steal 'm one fella towel, one fella cane-knife, two - ten fella cartridge.
Chapter 21 2010
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What he had done was to pick up a cane-knife - you know the kind, as big as a machete and as heavy.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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He swerved aside to avoid the horse, at the same time swinging his cane-knife in a slicing blow that would have cut her in twain.
Chapter 22 2010
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Every cane-knife was lifted, and every boy save Gogoomy leaped for her.
Chapter 22 2010
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One of the partners had his shoulder slashed nearly off by a cane-knife.
Chapter 7 2010
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When my brother went out with a number of natives laden with surveying implements, Pola only stopped long enough to beg for a cane-knife before he was leading the party.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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What he had done was to pick up a cane-knife - you know the kind, as big as a machete and as heavy.
The Princess 1918
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One of the partners had his shoulder slashed nearly off by a cane-knife.
A Hard-Bitten Gang 1911
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You steal 'm one fella towel, one fella cane-knife, two - ten fella cartridge.
Contraband 1911
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He swerved aside to avoid the horse, at the same time swinging his cane-knife in a slicing blow that would have cut her in twain.
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