Penknife: alternatives and connections

of Pocketknife

The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly…

A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they d…

The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.

The act or process of grafting or mending.

The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointin…

In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.

A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.

The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust.…