knife up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To trim the edges on a boot or shoe of bits of leather, etc. that may be attached to the sides.
Dated
verb
To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
verb
To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
Example Sentences
- "For instance, does he suppose that the edges of samples are set only twice, the same as on regular goods, or that they are not knifed up here and there by the foreman of the making room, or that the bottom finish is not given more attention than the stock shoes?"
- "Next, it is knifed up. That is to say, the whole periphery of the heel, now rugged and uneven with the new pieces which have been added in the "making-up" process, is brought into line with the top-piece and the seat of the heel."
- "The seat must be knifed-up very cleanly, as shown from A to C all the stitches being entirely covered, and the extreme edge of the seat A C being close to the upper leather D."
- "Knife up the heel to the required pitch, attach the top-piece, and round up square to the top lift."
- "The following mishap and its repair, I think, end to show marine engineers aboard tramp steamers the value of taking care of what appeared at the time to be useless articles; for it proved to me the advantage of having retained from the junk dealer an old windlass stop valve which had been knifed up, or rather the valve seat had been knifed up so often that it had become thin enough to allow steam to pass through the somewhat porous metal of which it was made."
- "The writer ran up against a particularly bad case in which some hundreds of holes had to be knifed up, and in many cases recessed to a depth of ⅜-inch, as it was necessary that bolts of uniform length should be used in erection."