Meaning of California toothpick | Babel Free

Definitions

A Bowie knife.

obsolete

Examples

“the latter a most formidable weapon, only inferior in size and weight to the modern "California toothpick."”

“Men cut each other with "California toothpicks" (bowie knives). Mosquitoes swarmed in the hot evenings.”

“Provisions to last a year or more were put on board, together with all sorts of mining equipment - spades, shovels, picks, the newest and best in gold washing machines, fire kindlers, life preservers, pails for collecting gold, California soap to wash gold, California gold sifters, California toothpicks.”

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