Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A knife or dagger; specifically, a long, straight double-edged weapon carried in the middle ages by persons not of the military class, as on journeys, or by foot-soldiers and attendants on a camp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A knife; a dagger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
knife ; adagger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ohé les tueurs, à la balle ou au couteau tuez vite!
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
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Ohé les tueurs, à la balle ou au couteau tuez vite !
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“And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?” said
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Oui, prenez un couteau, retirez-en la lame et le manche, il vous reste le concept.
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His walking boots were of cordovan leather; his cloak of good Scottish grey, which served to conceal a whinger, or couteau de chasse, that hung at his belt, and was his only offensive weapon, for he carried in his hand but a rod of holly.
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I jumped out of the carriage, pitched fraternity to the devil, and, betwixt desperation and something very like shame, began to cut away with a couteau de chasse, which I had provided in case of necessity. —
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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This was crossed by another shoulder belt, to which was hung a hunting knife, or couteau de chasse.
Quentin Durward 2008
minerva commented on the word couteau
Knife.
December 19, 2007
yarb commented on the word couteau
"...when they pretended to fasten him on his back he grew outrageous, and drawing a large couteau from his side-pocket, threatened to rip up the belly of the first man that should approach him..."
- Smollett, Roderick Random, 1748
May 23, 2014