Definitions for bowie-knife

bowie-knife bowie knife

Spelling: [boh-ee, boo-ee]
IPA: /ˈboʊ i, ˈbu i/

Bowie-Knife is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in bowie-knife (-beefiiknow).

Definitions for bowie-knife

noun

  1. a heavy sheath knife having a long, single-edged blade.

Origin of bowie-knife

1830-40, Americanism; named after James Bowie, for whom the knife was designed, either by James or his brother Rezin P. Bowie (1793-1841)

Examples for bowie-knife

Raoul shifted his rifle to his left hand and pulled out his bowie knife.

Neither did he appear in public with a bowie knife down his bootleg.

The bowie knife was the British article bought in Liverpool.

On the stone beside him was Dirk, the Hottentot, sharpening a bowie knife.

His bowie knife had fallen a short distance away, as if he had thrown it.

He had lost prestige, and was coming to recover it with a bowie knife.

Madison sometimes had the bowie knife, and sometimes Ben had it.

Philip cut his bread and beef with his bowie knife as long as it lasted.

He picked up his draggled skirt, and drew a bowie knife from his boot.

Barry cut the rope with his bowie knife, and they rolled him over.

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