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Wat (wie) is PENKNIVES - definitie

SMALL FOLDING KNIFE
Pen-knife; Pen knife; Penknives
  • A simple penknife.
  • Using a penknife to cut a pen

Penknives         
·pl of Penknife.
penknife         
(penknives)
A penknife is a small knife with a blade that folds back into the handle.
N-COUNT
Penknife         
·noun A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

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Penknife

Penknife, or pen knife, is a British English term for a small folding knife. Today the word penknife is the common British English term for both a pocketknife, which can have single or multiple blades, and for multi-tools, with additional tools incorporated into the design.

Originally, penknives were used for thinning and pointing quills (cf. penna, Latin for feather) to prepare them for use as dip pens and, later, for repairing or re-pointing the nib. A penknife might also be used to sharpen a pencil, prior to the invention of the pencil sharpener. In the mid-1800s, penknives were necessary to slice the uncut edges of newspapers and books.

A penknife did not necessarily have a folding blade, but might resemble a scalpel or chisel by having a short, fixed blade at the end of a long handle. One popular (but incorrect) folk etymology makes an association between the size of a penknife and that of a small ballpoint pen.

During the 20th century there has been a proliferation of multi-function knives with assorted blades and gadgets, including; awls, reamers, scissors, nail files, corkscrews, tweezers, toothpicks, and so on. The tradition continues with the incorporation of modern devices such as ballpoint pens, LED torches/flashlights, and USB flash drives.

The most famous example of a multi-function penknife is the Swiss Army knife, some versions of which number dozens of functions and are really more of a folding multi-tool, incorporating a blade or two, than a penknife with extras.

A larger folding knife, especially one in which the blade locks into place, is often called a claspknife.

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor PENKNIVES
1. So, according to the calculations of economist Veronique de Rugy, ''.''2 percent of intercepted items were nail scissors, cigarette lighters, penknives and the like.
2. They gouge their initials on desk tops with penknives, declarations of love with hearts and arrows alongside the long–ago gougings of their fathers and brothers.
3. In this era of the high environmental cost of air travel, of pensioners almost being locked up for carrying penknives, of childhood obesity and falling cable–car gondolas, I think it‘s worth noting the passing of this national institution.
4. Eyewitness Chloe Wilson lays flowers at the scene of the tragedy Meanwhile, a seven–year–old girl told today how dozens of horrified onlookers tried to tear open the stricken sculpture with their bare hands and penknives after it crashed to the ground.
5. A total of some 365,000 travelers are expected to keep the airport busy until after the holiday, with some 185,000 set to depart the country and around 182,000 slated to enter Israel on 2,257 flights. (Zohar Blumenkrantz) Market vendor remanded over sale of knives to minors A vendor from Tel Aviv‘s Hatikva market was ordered held in remand for four days by the Tel Aviv Magistrate‘s Court yesterday, following his arrest on suspicion of selling penknives and knives to at least eight children.