Definition of "navaja" [navaja]

• A folding or clasp-knife. (noun)
• A razor. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She, too, was skilled in interpreting and manipulating the influence that supernatural elements had on the human body: ... "from [one's] teeth she pulls worms, and from other parts of the body, paper, flint, obsidian (navaja de la tierra), removing these things, she says that she cures the sick, this being a falsity and notorious superstition.""
• "Andrés had long practised the _navaja_ under one of the best teachers in Seville, as at"
• ""Very wise was I, and prudent, for but three minutes since did I see him, and in his throat la navaja de la ramera Holandesa.""