knived

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English

Etymology 1

From knife +‎ -ed, with -f- changed to -v- as in the plural knives.

Adjective

knived (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of knifed.
    • 1937, R[aymond] O[liver] Faulkner, “The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus—III”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume XXIII, London: The Egypt Exploration Society, , pages 172–173:
      The sharp-knived butchers cut off thine head, they sever thy neck, they do execution on (?) thee again and again. […] he shall not be, for he is fallen to the fire of the glance of Horus, to the slaughterers and the sharp-knived butchers; they perform their office on him and he is fallen into this evil impotence.
    • 1981, Tom Vernon, “Pyramids of the Sun”, in Fat Man on a Bicycle: A Discovery of France, : Fontana/Collins, published 1982, →ISBN, page 313:
      At the entrance to the market-hall, where sharp-knived butchers were peeling off slices of steak as if they were taking off a wrapper, and where the butter came in primrose mountains, was a woman selling basil a good foot-and-a-half high planted in an old tin can, and scenting the doorway with its enormous leaves.
    • 1981, Amos Oz, Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories, New York, N.Y., London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 207:
      He sent silent-knived assassins by night to the Ammonite captains.
    • 2009 May, Julius Honnor, Umbria & Marche (FootprintItalia), Bath, Somerset: Footprint, →ISBN, page 54, column 1:
      Other cured meats are common too – a shop selling salami and other pork products is known all over Italy as a norcineria, after the town of Norcia, famous for its sharp-knived butchers who once also had a sideline keeping boys’ singing voices high.
    • 2010, Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated by Donald O. White, The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis, Cambridge, Cambs.: Galileo Publishers, →ISBN, page 114:
      Her mother differed from the long-knived butchers only in that she screamed along with her victim, so that an outsider could never tell who was threatening whose life.

Etymology 2

From knive +‎ -ed.

Verb

knived

  1. simple past and past participle of knive
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