knife up

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1. 1

   To trim the edges on a boot or shoe of bits of leather, etc. that may be attached to the…

   To trim the edges on a boot or shoe of bits of leather, etc. that may be attached to the sides.

   • Next, it is knifed up. That is to say, the whole periphery of the heel, now rugged and uneven with the new pieces which have been added in the "making-up" process, is brought into line with the top-piece and the seat of the heel.
   • The seat must be knifed-up very cleanly, as shown from A to C all the stitches being entirely covered, and the extreme edge of the seat A C being close to the upper leather D.
2. 2

   To trim with a knife.

   • The writer ran up against a particularly bad case in which some hundreds of holes had to be knifed up, and in many cases recessed to a depth of ⅜-inch, as it was necessary that bolts of uniform length should be used in erection.
   • Firgure 3 shows a typical laser cut die before knifing-up. In this case there are 60 cartons cut at one time.
3. 3

   To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.

   • He knifed up a morsel, wandered on, chewing happily.
   • You knifed up communal butter or jam without bothering to clean your knife of previous food;
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   1. 4

      To cut up or carve up with a knife.

      • Elkins had knifed up Hines pretty good before running out.
      • Stockton attacks him, gets knifed up himself, but manages to get away.
      • I heard loads of stories of young guys being knifed up just for straying into the wrong ends.
   2. 5

      To slice through

      To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.

      • Nosegay loafed along at five knots as it knifed up the yacht basin, passing the line of marinas that laced the inner shore of Shelter Island.
      • A long gouge had been cut in the pristine white sand, a gouge that began at the water's edge, knifed up the sand, and stopped at the rocks at the end of the beach.
      • Weeds knifed up through the cracked cement walkway .
   3. 6

      To penetrate sharply upward.

      • He leaped almost into the teeth of the blue-tinged ray which knifed up with uncanny accuracy from the slit in the roof of the hut.
      • The glass was close enough that the alcohol fumes knifed up her nostrils.
      • A strange noise knifed up from below.
   4. 7

      To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner

      • Cold draughts knifed up between the duckboards.
      • A gust of wind knifed up the street making him glad of the thick fur of his costume.
      • Espel turned up her collar as the freezing wind knifed up the street.
   5. 8

      To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation

      • Pain knifed up his leg as he landed, the ladder atop him.
      • The old pain knifed up from some cellar in his chest now and burned with an intensity he'd thought had burned itself out.
      • A shudder knifed up her back .
   6. 9

      To sit up or stand up suddenly.

      • I knifed up on the bed. Clean sober awake.
      • He knifed up, startled from a dream.
      • He knifed up into the other side, rounded the truck in her huge yard and headed back to the gate.
   7. 10

      To rise precipitously.

      • Above the trees and parallel to the line of darkness, everlasting Everest knifed up into the sky with dreadful majesty.
      • Soon, all but the most persistent scrub disappeared and nearly sheer cliffs knifed up on either side, catching the afternoon sun in black shadows and brown rock.

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