throwing-knife love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A knife used as a weapon and intended to be thrown at the enemy. Such knives are common in parts of Africa, especially among the Mombuttus, and are of various shapes, often with a number of secondary projections or arms on the principal blade

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Examples

  • A heavy, iron-hilted throwing-knife protruded from the thief's back, buried to the hilt squarely between his shoulder blades.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Hassem had fallen on his own serrated dagger; its thin blade had passed completely through him, sticking out next to the hilt of the iron throwing-knife.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Then the girl changed her stance, balancing the pommel of her sword in her hand as if the whole massive piece of metal was nothing more than an oversized throwing-knife.

    Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • And, sticking in the man's naked back, between the shoulder blades, was the haft of a heavy throwing-knife similar to that which had so narrowly missed his own head on board the _Barang_.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • The game was now indefinitely blocked, since it was certain death for a player to attempt the recovery of his throwing-knife, and the rules did not permit the substitution of fresh weapons.

    The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

  • Typically, those community games just become throwing-knife matches.

    Latest from PALGN Anthony admin@palgn.com.au 2010

  • Typically, those community games just become throwing-knife matches.

    Latest from PALGN Anthony admin@palgn.com.au 2010

  • But if they’re fair, they’re fierce; one I knew was such a peach that the slavers who’d taken her expected a record price, but were disappointed when she discouraged the buyers by juggling a throwing-knife during the bidding, and they had to give her away.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

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