table knife

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   a knife used for eating at dining table

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Questions about table knife

What does table knife mean?

table knife means "a knife used for eating at dining table".

Is table knife a common word?

table 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.