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jockteleg

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jock⋅te⋅leg

  [jok-tuh-leg]
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–noun British Dialect.
a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
Also, joktaleg.

Origin:
1665–75; orig. Scots; first attested as jackteleg, perh. with Jack, Jock and leg, alluding to knife handles carved in the form of a leg
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