bowie knife

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   a stout hunting knife with a single edge

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Questions about bowie knife

What does bowie knife mean?

bowie knife means "a stout hunting knife with a single edge".

Is bowie knife a common word?

bowie knife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.