Definition of Table knife

1. Noun. A knife used for eating at dining table.

Specialized synonyms: Butter Knife, Case Knife, Fish Knife, Steak Knife
Generic synonyms: Cutlery, Eating Utensil, Knife

Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Knife

table-mountain pine
table-tennis bat
table-tennis racquet
table-tennis table
table apple
table board
table cloth
table d'hote
table d'hôte
table dancer
table dances
table decoration
table football
table game
table knife (current term)
table lamp
table lamps
table lifting
table linen
table manners
table mat
table mountain
table mountains
table mustard
table napkin
table of contents
table rapping
table salt
table saw

Literary usage of Table knife

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The blades first being mooded (rough forged) iron for tang and bolster welded on, tanged, smithed, hardened and tempered, the table knife grinder grinds and ..."

2. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1843)
"Wragg, Sheffield, table knife grinder.— Benjamin Barber, Sheffield, table knife ... Fox, Sheffield, table knife and blade grinder.— William Birks, Sheffield ..."

3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Table-knife cutlery, manufactured in London. 1 I ADDIS, SAMUEL JOSEPH, ... Specimen razor and table knife, made from the finest tempered steel. ..."

4. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions: To by William Darrah Kelley (1872)
"It is no use denying, either, that during the respite which such trades here as the spring knife and table knife trade will have ..."

5. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions: To by William Darrah Kelley (1872)
"Indeed, they adopt precisely the same tactics as those used by the table knife manufacturers when they first commenced that competition with Sheffield which ..."

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