Meaning of knifehandle | Babel Free

Examples

“Her fingers tightened on the knifehandle, going white.”

“I tiptoed toward the first bed, my fingers tightening about the knifehandle, I dove its blade forward, straight for Wann’s fat throat.”

“His mother’s father had done this for him with a woodburning tool and the boy had watched the old man as he formed the letters, permanently scarring the knifehandle with the boy’s name and date.”

“Note: clearing from the left, and the position of the thumb on the side knifehandle.”

“One exhibit which created extraordinary interest was a stuffed bullock on a pedestal and around him, in a glass case, all the articles of common use such as leather, glue, buttons, preserved meat, knifehandles, felt hats and artificial manures to be derived from the beast if it were slaughtered in Ireland.”

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