Penknife, or pen knife, is a small folding knife. Today penknife is also the common British English term for both a pocketknife, which can have single...
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(jack-knife), folding knives, EDC knife, or may be referred to as a penknife, though a penknife may also be a specific kind of pocketknife. A typical blade length...
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she uses to help herself survive, along with a drill, some tape, and a penknife she had managed to salvage from earlier. Upon hearing screams, she looks...
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Operation Goldflake (redirect from Operation Penknife)
plans. The convoys would be vulnerable while in transit, so Operation "Penknife" was created to hide the movement of the Canadians out of Italy. A special...
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Skeleton knife (section Penknife)
refers to two different types of knives, a kitchen knife and an unadorned penknife. The first type of skeleton knife is a small kitchen knife that typically...
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A Penknife in My Heart is a 1958 crime thriller novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It was one of four stand-alone...
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and violent behaviour. During an argument, he injured a classmate with a penknife and was severely punished. After joining a new non-religious school in...
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knife, knot, know, and knee) After a prefix (unknowable) In compounds (penknife) English is now the only Germanic language to productively use "hard" ⟨c⟩...
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of "The Cruel Mother", the woman stabs the baby in the heart using "a penknife long and sharp," but whereas in "The Cruel Mother" the woman is visited...
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earn his living by writing. Four of the Blake novels – A Tangled Web, A Penknife in My Heart, The Deadly Joker, The Private Wound – do not feature Strangeways...
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