knifehandle

plural knifehandles

1. alternativeAlternative form of knife-handle.

   Her fingers tightened on the knifehandle, going white.

   1996, Howard, Lance, The Comanche's Ghost, F.A. Thorpe, page 136

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   I tiptoed toward the first bed, my fingers tightening about the knifehandle, I dove its blade forward, straight for Wann’s fat throat.

   1968, Gray, Rod, Kiss My Assassin, Tower Publications, page 117

   His mother’s father had done this for him with a woodburning tool and the boy had watched the old man as he formed the letters, permanently scarring the knifehandle with the boy’s name and date.

   2013, Armand, David, Harlow, Texas Review Press, page 94

   Note: clearing from the left, and the position of the thumb on the side knifehandle.

   1983, Lillicrap, D. R, Food and Beverage Service, E. Arnold, page 60

   One exhibit which created extraordinary interest was a stuffed bullock on a pedestal and around him, in a glass case, all the articles of common use such as leather, glue, buttons, preserved meat, knifehandles, felt hats and artificial manures to be derived from the beast if it were slaughtered in Ireland.

   1986, West, Trevor, Horace Plunkett : co-operation and politics : an Irish biography, Catholic University of America Press, page 67