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Knife v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Knife v. [f. KNIFE sb. (See also KNIVE.)]

1   1.  trans. To use a knife to; to cut, strike or stab with a knife.

2 1865.  Daily Tel., 18 April, 3/5. Pirate … who was only ‘knifed’ just prior to winning at Doncaster, secured the judge’s fiat easily at the finish.

3 1866.  G. W. Thornbury, Greatheart, III. 174. I should get you pistolled or knifed, as sure as eggs are eggs, for this insolence.

4 1883.  ‘Annie Thomas,’ Mod. Housewife, 72. I knew better than to knife my oyster.

5 1890.  Conan Doyle, Sign of Four, xi. (ed. 3), 209. I would have thought no more of knifing him than of smoking this cigar.

6   b.  To lift (food) to the mouth with a knife.

7 1897.  Outing (U.S.), XXX. 460/1. These knowledge-seekers … knife their food, feeding both brain and stomach simultaneously. What they lost in manners, they gained in time.

8   c.  U.S. slang. To strike at secretly; to endeavor to defeat in an underhand way.

9 1888.  Nation (N. Y.), 5 July, 3/1. He speaks favorably of them in a leading article, and ‘knifes’ them slyly in paragraphs or extracts.

10 1892.  Boston Globe, 5 Nov., 2/2. The idea is to knife Moise for Congress from the seventh by making the Tillmanites stay away from the polls.

11 1895.  Moreton Frewen, in Times, 19 Dec., 8/3. The liberal knifing of Senators Lodge and Chandler will confirm wavering Irish voters to support the ‘Grand Old Party.’

12   2.  Techn. a. To spread or lay on (paint) with a knife. b. Boot-making. To trim (soles and heels) with a knife.

13 1887.  Ch. Times, 24 June, 516/3. The pigments … are knifed on to the canvas.

14 1888.  Times, 14 May, 6/6. For boots … 1s. a dozen [was paid to the finisher] for knifing.

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