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pocketknife
/ ˈɒɪˌԲɪ /
noun
a small knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle; penknife
Word History and Origins
Origin of pocketknife1
Example Sentences
The other took Juan’s pocketknife and stabbed him in the leg, he said.
As Mom signed me in to camp, I watched the kids stab at trees with pocketknives.
He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.
One of the men, 22, of Maple Valley, punched her several times before taking out a pocketknife and repeatedly stabbing her, police said.
“We were given a free pocketknife during our trainings, and I had that pocketknife on me, so I was able to cut her out of her seatbelt,” he said in a phone interview on Saturday.
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