Penknife in a sentence

Penknife meaning

1. A small pocketknife; (loosely) any pocketknife.
2. A small knife designed for safe and convenient storage, typically in the form of a miniature clasp-knife, or with blade retractable into the handle.
3. A small knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds into nibs to provide or repair writing implements, early versions were commonly small sheath knives.

Using Penknife

• The main meaning on this page is: A small pocketknife; (loosely) any pocketknife. | A small knife designed for safe and convenient storage, typically in the form of a miniature clasp-knife, or with blade retractable into the handle. | A small knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds into nibs to provide or repair writing implements, early versions were commonly small sheath knives.
• Useful related words include: pocketknife, pocket knife.
• In the example corpus, penknife often appears in combinations such as: with penknife.

Context around Penknife

• Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
• Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 0 end
• Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Penknife

• In this selection, "penknife" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, trusty, musical and cortaplumas stand out and add context to how "penknife" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include a musical penknife for 80 and as cortaplumas penknife when it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "penknife" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.