Crossword-Solution: JACKKNIVES 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 30

The jackknives--a big one and a little one--the bits of cord, the fishhooks, the nails: these were handy to have on certain occasions.

The old schoolhouse is altered some; the benches are replaced By new ones, very like the same our jackknives once defaced; But the same old bricks are in the wall, the bell swings to and fro; Its music's just the same, dear Tom, 'twas forty years ago.

The afternoon was warm and sultry, and overcome by the heat the village loungers had disposed of themselves, some on the long piazza of the hotel, and others in front of the principal store, where, with elevated heels and busy jackknives, they whittled out shapeless things, or made remarks concerning any luckless female who chanced to pass.

The floor was of rough pine boards laid loose, with cracks between them that were a standing menace to jackknives and slate pencils.

Some of the sailors climbed over the front wall and with their jackknives cut away the boughs in front of the guns.