Definition of Drawknives

1. drawknife [n] - See also: drawknife

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawknives

drawing live
drawing lots
drawing off
drawing out
drawing paper
drawing pin
drawing pins
drawing power
drawing room
drawing rooms
drawing string
drawing table
drawings
drawish
drawknife
drawknives (current term)
drawl
drawlatch
drawlatches
drawled
drawler
drawlers
drawlier
drawliest
drawling
drawlingly
drawlings
drawlink
drawlinks
drawloom

Literary usage of Drawknives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"All the workmen were soon provided with drawknives, and it is probable that tool has come to stay as a means of tunneling in sticky clay. ..."

2. The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"... of such things as drawknives and handsaws had been purchased previously. This committee adopted a standard type of drawknife and a standard handsaw, ..."

3. How America Went to War: An Account from Official Sources of the Nation's by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"... as drawknives and handsaws had been purchased previously. This committee adopted a standard type of drawknife and a standard handsaw, ..."

4. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1903)
"It was then peeled off with drawknives and cut up into small pieces, after which it was ready for food. It was very essential that the bark be thawed out ..."

5. America's Munitions 1917-1918: Report of Benedict Crowell, the Assistant by United States War Dept (1919)
"Many varieties of such things as drawknives and handsaws had been purchased previously. This committee adopted a standard type of draw knife and a standard ..."

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