Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish-carver.
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- noun A
knife for cutting and servingfish at table. - noun A table
knife withspatula -shapedblade designed for eating fish.
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Examples
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So she did-the next course was fish, and even though she actually knew what the fish-knife and fish-fork looked like, she reached for the ones she'd used for the salad.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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One of these was when Morton, red and exultant, came lugging home a mammoth express package, with Molly, fish-knife in hand, dancing about him like some crazy Apache squaw about a war-captive, though she was only impatient to cut the cord.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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Instantly she had slammed the panels together; and before he could reopen them had armed herself with a huge, glittering fish-knife.
The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa
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"She shall not be married in the teeth of evil fortune, if I have to murder the Dragon Painter with my fish-knife!"
The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa
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[Footnote: The articles were -- a silver coffee-pot and stand, a silver plated tea-pot, a silver cream-jug, do. fish-knife, and half-a-dozen do. dessert spoons.] and request they may be appropriated to the furtherance of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth
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_ Jacquot, _who has just begun to strop a fish-knife, realizes that he has been outdone in devilry, and gives it back to the waiter.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Various
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American manufacturers have not as yet made a salt free from foreign flavors and suitable to delicate cookery; its peculiar fishy flavor is objectionable, and gives to bread a taste that leads the eater thereof to imagine it had been sliced with a fish-knife.
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On Lil's silken bosom reposed a diamond-and-platinum pin the size and general contour of a fish-knife.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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But if you will have the truth: the fish-knife business by all means.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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But if you will have the truth: the fish-knife business by all means.
At the Sign of the Eagle Gilbert Parker 1897
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