OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27259

penknife

Meanings (ES + gloss)
cortaplumas • navaja
A small pocketknife; (loosely) any pocketknife.
Limpet's penknife was on the table, and he snatched that up and commenced stabbing it into the cork, whether as a means of getting it out, or merely as a relief to his passion, it…
The logical distinction between genus and species can, of course, apply to any objects whatsoever. Thus, for example, the genus knife may be divided into several species, such as p…
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