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Pocketknife

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A knife small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket; usually a folding knife (with blades or tools that the user can fold or retract into the handle).

    "Jimmy had a pocketknife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour."

  2. 2
    a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket wordnet

Etymology

From pocket + knife.

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