clasp knife

1. 1.

   a large knife with one or more folding blades

   Synonymsjackknife

   Broaderpocketknife

Questions about clasp knife

What does clasp knife mean?

clasp knife means "a large knife with one or more folding blades".

What is another word for clasp knife?

Close synonyms include jackknife. 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 clasp knife a common word?

clasp 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.