hunting knife

noun
a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.

Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism

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hunting knife
 
n
a knife used for flaying and cutting up game and sometimes for killing it

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Hunting knife is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Example sentences
He pulled out a large hunting knife and rubbed it on her body.
Realizing she could identify him, he cut her throat with a foldable hunting
  knife.
The hunting knife appears to have a rubber or plastic handle.
Another field test for compact glacial till is to pick at the site of a pit
  with a large hunting knife.
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