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Knife thrust   /naɪf θrəst/   Listen
Knife thrust

noun
1.
A strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument.  Synonyms: stab, thrust.






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"Knife thrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... against them, and sought as much as they could to practise some mischiefe against them: and one amongst the rest seeing an Englishman alone in a certaine lane of the Citie, came vpon him suddenly, and with his knife thrust him in the side, yet made no such great wound, but that it was easily recouered. The English company hearing of it, acquainted the king with the fact, who immediatly sent both for the party that had receiued the wound and the offender also, and caused an executioner in the ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7 - England's Naval Exploits Against Spain • Richard Hakluyt



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