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knife grinder

noun

  1. a person who makes and sharpens knives, esp an itinerant one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Only when Mum dished up the stew did I even remember the Knife Grinder's visit.

Knife Grinder's cough’s a dying man's cough.

The knife grinder's look was friendly on the surface.

"If he isn't fierce worried about his driveway"—the knife grinder tilted his head and sucked air—"he needs to be. Tarmac's cracked serious like. Pack of tinkers laid it originally, that's my guess. Rain'll freeze inside them cracks come winter, prize the tarmac up, see, and by spring it'll be like the moon! Needs tearin' up and relayin' proper. Me and my brother'll get it done faster than—" His finger click was as loud as the popper in Frustration.

Knife Grinder heaved up his kit bag and walked down the drive.

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