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cuchillo
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.
Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.
cuchillo • puñal • serranil
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
cuchillo
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
acuchillar
To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought befo…
She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
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