clasp knife
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clasp knife
a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
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A native of Oldmeldrum, Booth had gone on a drunken rampage, threatening his wife with a
clasp knife, believing that she had been unfaithful to him.
To this day I have never discovered or been able to make up my mind whether Bugsy regarded the
clasp knife as part of his essential rugby equipment, to go with his white flybags and shirt, or whether - more likely - he had found the knife on the field since the Territorial Army used it for exercises.
A SCHOOL catering instructor who brandished a
clasp knife at a disruptive pupil after being shut out of a classroom has been spared jail.
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