case knife

1. 1.

   a metal blade with a handle; used as cutlery

   Broadertable knife
2. 2.

   a knife with a fixed blade that is carried in a sheath

   Synonymssheath knife

   Broaderknife

Questions about case knife

What does case knife mean?

case knife means "a metal blade with a handle; used as cutlery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for case knife?

Close synonyms include sheath knife. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is case knife a common word?

case knife is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.