Associations to the word «Penknife»

Wiktionary

PENKNIFE, noun. A small pocketknife; a small knife with a blade which folds into the hand. Penknives often incorporate other tools such as corkscrews, and are generally smaller than pocketknives as a group.

Dictionary definition

PENKNIFE, noun. A small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne