clasp knife
noun
: pocketknife
especially
: a large one-bladed folding knife having a catch to hold the blade open
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Officers found a clasp knife and a marijuana cigarette in the car and confiscated Zheng’s license, court documents say.
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Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
Our knowledge of their physiology advanced in 1885, when the British professor William Turner came into possession of a Sowerby’s beaked whale that two Shetland Islanders had driven ashore by stoning before chopping off its tail with a clasp knife and a peat-cutting shovel.
—J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
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Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
Our knowledge of their physiology advanced in 1885, when the British professor William Turner came into possession of a Sowerby’s beaked whale that two Shetland Islanders had driven ashore by stoning before chopping off its tail with a clasp knife and a peat-cutting shovel.
—J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
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“Clasp knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clasp%20knife. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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