oyster-knife

After opening one of the largest, (using his cutlass as an oyster-knife), and making the experiment with due deliberation, he announced himself perfectly satisfied.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Tom remembered well what would have been his portion, as he sat on the dirty cellar steps and pegged away with his oyster-knife.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Yes, -- about as "easy" as "easy shaving" with a serrated oyster-knife!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various

Or wash oysters in the shell and put them on hot coals, or upon the top of a hot stove, or bake them in a hot oven; open the shells with an oyster-knife, taking care to lose none of the liquor.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

The little craft, which was a dapper cutter with an oyster-knife sort of bow and a clean run aft, as if she could race well when heeling over and show a good deal of her copper sheathing, did not exceed the tonnage mentioned by the Captain.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners' - a local sweetmeat - he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Lords asked him what he proposed doing with the two sacks crammed full of abusive letters addressed to him there by correspondents who thus obeyed a vulgar editor's suggestion, Lord Haldane replied with very good humour, "I have an oyster-knife in my kitchen and an excellent scullery-maid in my establishment: I shall see only my personal letters."

The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

He was working at the time, and he spoke in loud, coarse tones, as he wielded his oyster-knife, having for an audience the usual dozen barroom tarriers.

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

Her betrothal ring will not come off, Giuseppe; but the delicate bone snaps easily: your oyster-knife can sever the tendon ...

Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

I say, can't you invent a new kind of thing -- a sort of patent oyster-knife to open stupid fellows 'understanding?

The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870