Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A special workman employed in the more delicate and important part of archæological excavations in which it is necessary to substitute a kuife for a spade.
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Examples
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And anyone she knew well enough to trust with this, the moon-faced Oshai and his knife-man might also know of.
A Shadow in Summer 2006
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Do you know this Kibunte or the knife-man he hangs with?
Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001
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- When the knife-man is sneaking into Sean Connery's apartment, there is a POV shot as the camera approaches a window.
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My opponent was large, but he also was active and no mean knife-man.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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She was airlifted to Birmingham Children's Hospital after teachers and pupils ran to her aid and wrestled the knife-man from her.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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She was airlifted to Birmingham Children's Hospital after teachers and pupils ran to her aid and wrestled the knife-man from her.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The former Treasury knife-man had a piece in yesterday's Sun urging rank and file to keep their spirits up: It would be a disaster if the Lib Dems were simply to evolve into an internal Opposition...
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The former Treasury knife-man had a piece in yesterday's Sun urging rank and file to keep their spirits up: It would be a disaster if the Lib Dems were simply to evolve into an internal Opposition...
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The former Treasury knife-man had a piece in yesterday's Sun urging rank and file to keep their spirits up: It would be a disaster if the Lib Dems were simply to evolve into an internal Opposition...
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Their name for an Englishman was 'knife-man.'"] [Footnote 286: Chateaubriand, vol. i., p. 233; Charlevoix.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836
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