navaja

She, too, was skilled in interpreting and manipulating the influence that supernatural elements had on the human body: ... "from [one's] teeth she pulls worms, and from other parts of the body, paper, flint, obsidian (navaja de la tierra), removing these things, she says that she cures the sick, this being a falsity and notorious superstition."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Andrés had long practised the _navaja_ under one of the best teachers in Seville, as at

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

"Very wise was I, and prudent, for but three minutes since did I see him, and in his throat la navaja de la ramera Holandesa."

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

[132] In the folds of the sash is concealed the 'navaja,' or formidable clasp-knife, always worn by the Spaniard.

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

He is altogether too much in appearance and too little in effectuality of the stage Spaniard -- black garments, black upturned moustache, hook-nose, _navaja_, and all the rest of it.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

[...] algunos, la creación de esta denominada navaja suiza de las comunicaciones ha generado un entusiasmo popular tan grande que nos sugiere pensar que Google es hoy lo que Apple [...]

Google Wave and news « BuzzMachine 2009

= naufragar (se) =, to wreck (to be shipwrecked) = navaja de afeitar =, razor

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano