corn-knife

But he got hold of a bit of iron one day that he attempted to make into a corn-knife, but the stuff would not hold an edge, so he reasoned it would be a claw-hammer; but that would be a loss of overplus, and he tried to make an ax-head.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

The scars on the faces of those students at Heidelberg are accounted badges of honor, but they cannot compare with the big scar on my left knee that came to me as the free gift of a corn-knife.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth.

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Lena never told her father; perhaps she was ashamed; perhaps she was more afraid of his anger than of the corn-knife.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I split the melons with an old corn-knife, and we lifted out the hearts and ate them with the juice trickling through our fingers.

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I split the melons with an old corn-knife, and we lifted out the hearts and ate them with the juice trickling through our fingers.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I'll come over with a corn-knife one day and trim some of that shape off you.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Lena never told her father; perhaps she was ashamed; perhaps she was more afraid of his anger than of the corn-knife.

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

But he got hold of a bit of iron one day that he attempted to make into a corn-knife, but the stuff would not hold an edge, so he reasoned it would be a claw-hammer; but that would be a loss of overplus, and he tried to make an ax-head.

The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907