knived
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of knifed.
verb
simple past and past participle of knive
Example Sentences
- "The sharp-knived butchers cut off thine head, they sever thy neck, they do execution on (?) thee again and again. […] he shall not be, for he is fallen to the fire of the glance of Horus, to the slaughterers and the sharp-knived butchers; they perform their office on him and he is fallen into this evil impotence."
- "At the entrance to the market-hall, where sharp-knived butchers were peeling off slices of steak as if they were taking off a wrapper, and where the butter came in primrose mountains, was a woman selling basil a good foot-and-a-half high planted in an old tin can, and scenting the doorway with its enormous leaves."
- "He sent silent-knived assassins by night to the Ammonite captains."
- "Other cured meats are common too – a shop selling salami and other pork products is known all over Italy as a norcineria, after the town of Norcia, famous for its sharp-knived butchers who once also had a sideline keeping boys’ singing voices high."
- "Her mother differed from the long-knived butchers only in that she screamed along with her victim, so that an outsider could never tell who was threatening whose life."