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knive
knive
English
Verb
knive (third-person singular simple present knives, present participle kniving, simple past and past participle knived)
- (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.
- 1733, Practical Husbandman and Planter:
References
- ↑ “knive” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
- ↑ Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary