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knive

knive

English

Verb

knive (third-person singular simple present knives, present participle kniving, simple past and past participle knived)

  1. (uncommon) Alternative form of knife
    • 1733, Practical Husbandman and Planter:
      all small weak Shoots should be cut close to the main Stems; and (generally speaking) nipping with your Nails, is a better Way than kniving of them.
    • 2009, Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny, ISBN 0252034368, page 161:
      The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.
    • 2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories, ISBN 1409132811:
      I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.
    • 2014, Steve Ruedlinger, Almost Paradise, ISBN 1491724161, page 30:
      Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.

References

  1. knive” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
  2. Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary

Danish

Noun

knive c

  1. plural indefinite of kniv