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Bowie knife   /bˈoʊi naɪf/   Listen
Bowie knife

noun
1.
A stout hunting knife with a single edge.





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"Bowie knife" Quotes from Famous Books



... Babylonish mind. He was "raised a leettle too far to the west of sun-down" to be snubbed by Down-easters, any how; he's a cock of the woods, he is; an "etarnal screamer," "and that's a fact"—with a bowie knife under his waistcoat, and a patent revolver in his coat pocket, both very much at the service of any gentleman who may dispute his claims to popular or ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various


Words linked to "Bowie knife" :   knife


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