pocketknife

noun

Etymology

From pocket + knife.

  1. derived from *gneybʰ-
  2. derived from *knībaz
  3. derived from knífr
  4. inherited from cnīf
  5. inherited from knyf
  6. compounded as pocketknife — “pocket + knife

Definitions

  1. A knife small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket

    A knife small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket; usually a folding knife (with blades or tools that the user can fold or retract into the handle).

    • Jimmy had a pocketknife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour.

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