Jackknife [noun]
Definition of Jackknife:
arched dive like swan's
Opposite/Antonyms of Jackknife:
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Sentence/Example of Jackknife:
She cut it with Henry's jackknife into four quarters, and she and Henry took the two crusty ends themselves.
It was a rather battered jackknife, and Scattergood noticed that one blade had been broken off.
Mr. Blossom drew a jackknife from his pocket and began leisurely to sharpen a pencil.
Then he got up, jerked Mr. Blossom's old jackknife from the post where it had been abandoned, and pocketed it.
"I've heard tell you kin cut real gold like cheese," he said, and opened his jackknife.
It was the same as when one small boy says to another, "You give me your jackknife and I won't tell anybody to lick you."
We presented to each one a jackknife, and indicated by signs, that they were at liberty to take any thing we had.
And pray who shall search the vitals of a whale with a bodkin—who may reach his jackknife through the superposed bubber?
He had pulled a big jackknife out of his pocket and begun whittling a fine twig he had picked up.
Provis, who had been asleep too, staggered up at the noise I made, and in an instant I saw his jackknife shining in his hand.