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Bowie Knife

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long and double edged near the point used as a hunting knife and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States It was named from its inventor Colonel James Bowie Also by extension any large sheath knife

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