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1. Knife
   Used to cut gold leaf. It should be cleaned with alcohol or acetone to remove the machine oil. Care for it and sharpen it as you would any good blade. Very fine grit paper or emery cloth should provide a sufficient sharpening abrasive. Its purpose is to clearly break the leaf not cut it. Though a modified cutting motion is used.
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2. knife
   [n] - a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point 2. [n] - edge tool used as a cutting instrument 3. [v] - use a knife on
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3. knife
   in hand plates,the chisel that does the cutting Category: Mechanical engineering
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4. Knife
   Knife noun ; plural Knives . [ Middle English knif , Anglo-Saxon cnīf ; akin to Dutch knijf , Icelandic knīfr , Swedish knif , Danish kniv .] 1. An instrument consisting o...
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5. Knife
   Knife transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Knifed ; present participle & verbal noun Knifing .] 1. (Hort.) To prune with the knife. 2. To cut or stab with a knife. [ Low]
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6. Knife
   Knife transitive verb Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party). [ Slang, U. S.]
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7. knife
   Origin: OE. Knif, AS. Cnif; akin to D. Knijf, Icel. Knifr, Sw. Knif, Dan. Kniv. ... 1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty...
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8. knife
   noun edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
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9. knife
   verb use a knife on; `The victim was knifed to death`
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10. Knife
    • (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.. • (...
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11. knife
    tool or implement for cutting. Knives form the largest class of cutting implements known collectively as cutlery (q.v.).[5 related articles]
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12. Knife
    A tool which was flaked to form one or more elongate cutting edges.
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13. knife
    knife: see cutlery.
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14. Knife
    A knife is a cutting instrument, which in its simplest form comprises a blade with one long edge sharpened, fitted into a handle. A typical household knife is comprised of a blade, fitted into a handle separated by a bolster, and may be of one of three basic designs: back pointed, cutting edge point...
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15. knife
    Type: Term Pronunciation: nīf, nīvz Definitions: 1. A cutting tool consisting of a relatively long, narrow blade with one edge sharpened and a handle. Various specialized knives are used in surgery and dissection. Knives may also be used as weapons to inflict injury or cause death.
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16. Knife
    This is just another word for a one iron.
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17. Knife
    A `knife` (plural `knives`) is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the accessdate = 2007-05-07 -->--> Originally made of rock, flint, and obsidian, knives h...
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18. Knife
    (album) `Knife` is the second album by Aztec Camera and was released in 1984. It reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart&nbsp;– their highest showing at that time.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">
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19. Knife
    (envelope) The term `knife` is used to describe the cutting die for envelope or wrapper blanks. It is called a knife rather than a die in order to reserve the term die to describe the object which makes a embossed printed impression of the stamp or indicium on the envelope.<r...
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