Crossword-Solution: PENKNIFE 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Penknife n. A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making
and mending quill pens.

We have 12 clues for the answer “PENKNIFE”

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Folding tool 1 answer
Pocket cutter 1 answer
Pocket tool 1 answer
Quill cutter, once 1 answer
Something for purse or pocket. 1 answer
Tool for an archaeologist 1 answer
Tool often carried in one's pocket 1 answer
pocketknife 1 answer
Scout's accessory 2 answers
Whittler's tool 3 answers
Handy tool 3 answers
Pocket item 9 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PENKNIFE (5)

Ablewhite’s portmanteau to London by the next train, and return the washing-book, with my compliments and thanks, to the young woman who brought it in.” He laid the washing-book on the table, and taking out his penknife, began to trim his nails.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into the north wind.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 2008
They couldn’t find no letters nor nothing on him; nothing but an old penknife in his pocket and the wishbone of a chicken wrapped up in a piece of paper, and some poetry.’ ‘Some poetry?’ we exclaimed.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
There was an official permit to embark on board a Bremen steamer, mutilated in the same way; there was a card photograph, from which the face had been scratched by a penknife.
Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home Bayard Taylor 2008
Strolling through the workroom with the foreman, John automatically, and without knowing what he was doing, picked up a square piece of the bark, and fashioned it with two or three deft cuts of his penknife into a smooth tapering cork.
The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 2008

Quotes with PENKNIFE (2)

It’s all right now, Louisa: it’s all right, young Thomas,’ said Mr. Bounderby; ‘you won’t do so any more. I’ll answer for it’s being all over with father. Well, Louisa, that’s worth a kiss, isn’t it?’‘You can take one, Mr. Bounderby,’ returned Louisa, when she had coldly paused, and slowly walked across the room, and p. 18ungraciously raised her cheek towards him, with her face turned away.‘Always my pet; ain’t you, Louisa?’ said Mr. Bounderby. ‘Good-bye, Louisa!’He went his …
Charles Dickens
It's like a lion at the door; And when the door begins to crack, It's like a stick across you back; And when your back begins to smart, It's like a penknife in your heart; And when your heart begins to bleed, You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.
John Newberry
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).