butcher knife

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   a large sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat

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Questions about butcher knife

What does butcher knife mean?

butcher knife means "a large sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat".

Is butcher knife a common word?

butcher 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.