Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A knife with a thin blade fixed by a tang in a wooden handle, used by shoemakers for cutting and paring leather.
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Examples
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After him tagged a small white-headed boy, and after the boy, Willy Rose, with a sassafras-root and an old shoe-knife in his hands.
Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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Uncle Remus had a board across his lap, and, armed with a mallet and a shoe-knife, was engaged in making shoe-pegs.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Uncle Remus had a board across his lap, and, armed with a mallet and a shoe-knife, was engaged in making shoe-pegs.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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The little boy sat watching Uncle Remus sharpen his shoe-knife.
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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The little boy sat watching Uncle Remus sharpen his shoe-knife.
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Horace, not very respectfully, as he ran back, shoe-knife in hand, to cut the watermelon.
Captain Horace Sophie May 1869
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Paul took from under the thwart an old shoe-knife which had been ground down to one third of its original width.
Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859
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Got poisoned, very sharp shoe-knife and murderous thoughts.
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