Knife Edge - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: knife edgeKnife edge
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle and resting on a smooth surface serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum scale beam or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction...
Knife
An instrument consisting of a thin blade usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting fastened to a handle but of many different forms and names for different uses as table knife drawing knife putty knife pallet knife pocketknife penknife chopping knife etc...
Bowie knife
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...
Edge
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument as the edge of an ax knife sword or scythe...
deckle edged
having a rough edge having a deckle edge used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade as deckle edged paper a deckle edged book...
edged
having a specified kind of border or edge as a black edged card dried sweat left salt edged patches...
Feather edged
Having a feather edge also having one edge thinner than the other as a board in the United States said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable...
one edged
Having only one sharp edge single edged of cutting instruments mostly swords and razor blades Opposed to double edged...
Case knife
A knife carried in a sheath or case...
Deckle edge
The rough untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle also a rough edge in imitation of this...
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