Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large knife, with a wide blade and a sharp barb or hook at the back of the blade, used in cutting sugar-cane.

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Examples

  • You steal 'm one fella towel, one fella cane-knife, two - ten fella cartridge.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • What he had done was to pick up a cane-knife - you know the kind, as big as a machete and as heavy.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • He swerved aside to avoid the horse, at the same time swinging his cane-knife in a slicing blow that would have cut her in twain.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Every cane-knife was lifted, and every boy save Gogoomy leaped for her.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • One of the partners had his shoulder slashed nearly off by a cane-knife.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • When my brother went out with a number of natives laden with surveying implements, Pola only stopped long enough to beg for a cane-knife before he was leading the party.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • What he had done was to pick up a cane-knife - you know the kind, as big as a machete and as heavy.

    The Princess 1918

  • One of the partners had his shoulder slashed nearly off by a cane-knife.

    A Hard-Bitten Gang 1911

  • You steal 'm one fella towel, one fella cane-knife, two - ten fella cartridge.

    Contraband 1911

  • He swerved aside to avoid the horse, at the same time swinging his cane-knife in a slicing blow that would have cut her in twain.

    Gogoomy Finishes Along Kwaque Altogether 1911

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