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Webster 1913 Edition

Pocketknife

Pock′et-knifeˊ

,

Noun.

;

pl.

-knives

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A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

Definition 2024

pocketknife

pocketknife

See also: pocket knife

English

an assortment of pocketknives

Noun

pocketknife ‎(plural pocketknives)

A small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle, and thereby be safely stowed in one’s pocket.

Synonyms

penknife

Translations

small knife whose blades or tools can fold in its handle

Albanian: brisk (sq) m, biçak (sq) m
Bashkir: бәке ‎(bäke)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 刀仔 ‎(dou¹ zai²)

Mandarin: 小刀 (zh) ‎(xiǎodāo)
Czech: kapesní nůž m
Dutch: zakmes (nl) n
Finnish: taskuveitsi (fi), linkkuveitsi (fi)
French: canif (fr) m
Georgian:
German: Taschenmesser (de) n, Klappmesser (de) n
Greek: σουγιάς (el) m ‎(sougiás)
Hungarian: zsebkés (hu), bicska (hu)
Ido: kulteleto (io)
Irish: scian phóca f
Japanese: ポケットナイフ ‎(pokettonaifu)

Kurdish:
Kurmanji: kêrika berîkê f
Maltese: temprin tal-but m
Maori: naihi whakakopa
Mongolian: халаасны хутга ‎(halaasny hutga)
Polish: scyzoryk (pl) m
Portuguese: canivete (pt) m
Romanian: briceag (ro) n, cuțit de buzunar n
Russian: карма́нный нож m ‎(karmánnyj nož) (pocket knife), складно́й нож m ‎(skladnój nož) (folding knife), перочи́нный нож m ‎(peročínnyj nož) (penknife)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: џепни нож m, перорез m

Roman: džepni nož m, perorez (sh) m
Spanish: navaja (es) f
Swedish: fickkniv (sv) c, fällkniv c, pennkniv c
Turkish: çakı (tr), cep bıçağı
Volapük: pokaneif (vo)

See also

pocketknife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia