Definition of "clasp knife" []

• A pocketknife with a folding blade. (noun)

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• "Taking a good-size clasp knife from his pocket and opening it, Tom said, “I hear from him again, I take his tongue out.”"
• "Then Ada took her clasp knife and stripped bark from a hickory sapling and sought out a black locust and lopped two of its limbs with the hand axe and lashed them together with the hickory withes to form up a cross."
• "She would not reply, because she was turning over in her hand the clasp knife that she had once given to her father, or reading the poems of Laskaratos that he had given in return, the voice of the poetry filling her soul as it once had done in the days of a dead and unrecorded world."