knivesman

plural knivesmen

1. alternativeAlternative form of knifesman.

   Extirpation of such growths has been repeatedly attempted, but the patients, almost without exception, have perished from hæmorrhage, under the hands of the knivesmen.

   1831, Robert Liston, Elements of Surgery, part second, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […]; and Adam Black, Edinburgh, page 286

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   A pus case that actually threatens neighboring parts should have interference—the abscess to be opened when ripe. However, I do not trust the judgment of a knivesman in making decisions, because he is one-sided. He has neither patience nor belief in medicine.

   1913, Edmund Carleton, Homoeopathy in Medicine and Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, page 36

   He paid no attention to the Shin Bet man but rapped on the counter, bought a hundred grams for himself and then started down past the butcher shops, peering inside to watch as the dexterous knivesmen stripped carcasses to make schnitzel shel hodu—turkey cutlets.

   1987, John Weisman, Blood Cries, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 114