Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which sharpens a knife; specifically, an instrument for sharpening table-knives by drawing the blade between two steel edges.
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Examples
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My great-grandfather Seamus O'Faolin Queenan briefly worked as a disreputable knife-sharpener and was named in a class-action suit by a man believed to be Jack the Ripper.
Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt Joe Queenan 2011
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Here the toothless knife-sharpener used to set up his coughing, smoking wheel.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Here the toothless knife-sharpener used to set up his coughing, smoking wheel.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Bollywood has the best paean to these knifey heroes in Jaya Bhaduri's knife-sharpener cameo in the 1973 hit 'Zanjeer.'
Boing Boing 2007
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Some years ago I had lunch with the president of a knife-sharpener company, and he told me the following story:
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Three years ago Craig Claiborne, former food editor of The New York Times, happened to meet the owner of the Edgecraft knife-sharpener company.
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The knife-sharpener signals his approach with a special whistle.
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The knife-sharpener signals his approach with a special whistle.
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A parade perhaps, or the Banda Sinfónica trying their hand at Wagner or Bizet, the Indian flute of the knife-sharpener, the pneumatic drill, the hammers, the antiphonal dogs … someone singing below.
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A parade perhaps, or the Banda Sinfónica trying their hand at Wagner or Bizet, the Indian flute of the knife-sharpener, the pneumatic drill, the hammers, the antiphonal dogs … someone singing below.
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