Meaning of race knife | Babel Free

Definitions

A kind of knife hooked at the point, used for marking outlines on metal, wood, etc.

Examples

“And be it enacted, That every surveyor of lumber who shall be required to survey any timber or lumber, shall, at the time of making the survey, mark with a race knife or scoring iron, on each and every stick of ton timber by him surveyed, the number of cubic feet such stick shall contain[…]”

“Trees intended for felling should be plainly and legibly numbered, in consecutive order, with white paint, the surface of the outer bark being smoothed with a race''' knife for this purpose.”

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