(n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
Example Sentences:
(1) During one alleged sexual assault, he is said to have claimed, Proctor was persuaded not to cut off Nick’s genitals with a penknife only by the intervention of Heath, who was said by the witness to have been present during the sex attack at a large townhouse in London.
(2) It is not giving much away to say that the film builds to a graphic self-amputation, one that employs not only the rusty penknife blade but also a fair few of the knife's other attachments (the dinky little scissors, for example, with which the desperate Ralston, played with great intensity and lightness by James Franco, goes to work on a stubborn piano-wire of a tendon.)
(3) A directed history and examination revealed that the patient was stabbed in the back with a penknife while leaving a bus and stepped down onto a paralyzed leg, which collapsed beneath him.
(4) On another occasion, Proctor is also accused in the same venue of producing a penknife and threatened to cut Nick’s genitals.
(5) Whenever I go to the houses of parliament these days, I make sure that I leave my penknife behind, because it is bound to be seized by the security people.
(6) "This is a minimum of six months in prison for simply having a knife, potentially even a penknife, in your pocket.
(7) All he had with him was a rope, a video camera, a bottle of water and, crucially, a blunt penknife.
(8) Perhaps most crucially, after the first alleged rape, Sherwood said she began carrying a penknife and that she almost certainly cut the attacker during the second attack.
(9) Take up an extreme sport and, at best, you'll have to cut off your own hand with a penknife.
(10) During one alleged sexual assault, he is said to have claimed, Proctor was persuaded not to attack Nick’s genitals with a penknife only by the intervention of Heath, who was said by the witness to have been present during the sex attack at a large townhouse in London .
(11) The strange thing is, he says, Linda was even angrier with Steve (as a little girl she had tried to stab him with her penknife) but she dealt with the situation better.
(12) Does Boyle believe that everyone would react as Ralston did, with the blunt penknife, in that situation?
(13) This is a minimum of six months in prison for simply having a knife, potentially even a penknife, in your pocket – not, as I've read in some press reports , for a number of offences involving a knife.
(14) "Hogan-Howe is saying that if you go out of your house with a penknife and you have a previous knife-related offence, under this arrangement put forward by the Conservatives that person would go to prison.
Pocketknife
Definition:
(n.) A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.