Citations:knive

English citations of knive

to knife

• 1733, Practical Husbandman and Planter:

  all small weak Shoots should be cut close to the main Stems; and (generally speaking) nipping with your Nails, is a better Way than kniving of them.

• 1884, The Continent, volume 5, number 16 (114), page 509:

  One of the leading dailies of New York said in a recent issue: "There are undoubtedly ten or twenty thousand men in the state of New York who, out of the mere idea of being consistent with themselves, and for the purpose of showing that they could do it, would take the utmost delight in kniving President Arthur [...] do these gentlemen realize that the friends of President Arthur have knives of their own and know how to use them?"

• 1873, The United Service Magazine, volume 133, page 231:

  [...] naked and wounded, had only escaped being murdered by marvellous presence of mind in flinging such bright trinkets as he possessed among the monkeyish gang of murderers who were commencing to knive him, and now he sank quite [...]

• 1894, The Month, volume 81, page 172:

  At length as an ape he was fain The nuts of the forest to rive; Till he took to the low-lying plain, And proceeded his fellow to knive.

• 1984, Peter Barkworth, More about Acting, page 182:

  [...] do with the food: on which line I knived a potato on to my fork, when I lifted it to my mouth and when I ate it.

• 1996, Sudhir Kakar, The Colors of Violence, page 71:

  "If I hear that two of our people have been attacked and killed at the wooden bridge it takes me just five minutes to knive five of them."

• 2004, John H. Timmerman, Donald R. Hettinga, In the World: Reading and Writing as a Christian, →ISBN, page 210:

  They spin around the periphery of our suffering and fail to knive to the heart clad in sorrow.

• 2008, John Kinsella, Alvin Pang, Over there: poems from Singapore and Australia:

  My mother stands beside a board, the onion falls in equal hoops, steady her eye, her mind abroad, she knives the ringlets into groups.