case knife

noun

1. a knife carried or kept in a case or sheath.
2. a table knife.

case knife

noun

1. another name for sheath knife

Word History and Origins

Origin of case knife¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

He was certain the knife had not been acquired during the production and would not have been needed in the film, and in any case knives for use on set would have been blunted.

From BBC

Jean Paul Marat—for whose shrunken chest, at that very moment, poor, politics-crazed Charlotte Corday was sharpening the twenty-eight-cent case knife she had just bought.

From Project Gutenberg

We had only one case knife, which he was very fond of borrowing now and then, to cut the blubber, pretending that the muscle shells, which he broke for the purpose, were not sharp enough.

From Project Gutenberg

The palette knife is much better for freeing or lifting forms from a flat surface than a spatula or a case knife.

From Project Gutenberg

But digging was pretty slow work with the ground frozen and nothing but bayonets and case knives to dig with.

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