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knife-handle en · NOUN
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The grip of a knife.
The earliest of their known productions, the ivory knife-handle in the Louvre has perfect figures of dogs, goat, ibex and cheetah, unsurpassed in truth and spirit.
1940, Flinders Petrie, David Lightbody, Wisdom Of The Egyptians, page 76:Please turn that cardboard face down, and take this one, and compare it searchingly by the magnifier, with the fatal signature upon the knife-handle, and report your finding to the court.”
1894, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Harper and Brothers, page 197:She could guess, and she saw the knife-handle, but she didn’t know.
1969, Alan Hunter, Gently Sinking, Cassell & Company, page 41:
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