sheath knife

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

   Synonymscase knife

   Broaderknife

Questions about sheath knife

What does sheath knife mean?

sheath knife means "a knife with a fixed blade that is carried in a sheath".

What is another word for sheath knife?

Close synonyms include case 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 sheath knife a common word?

sheath 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.