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English
Etymology
Attested since at least 1733. Knife (verb), which is now 150 times more common, is first attested in the 1860s. Related to knife (“short blade”, noun); compare strife (noun), strive (verb).
Pronunciation
Verb
knive (third-person singular simple present knives, present participle kniving, simple past and past participle knived)
- Rare form of 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.
1917/1918, Wilfred Owen, “Exposure”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):Our brains always ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.
2009, Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny, →ISBN, page 161:The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.
2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories, →ISBN:I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.
2014, Steve Ruedlinger, Almost Paradise, →ISBN, page 30:Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.
References
- ^ “knive”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
knive c
- indefinite plural of kniv