Definition of "hunting-knife" []

• A knife used in the chase, sometimes to kill the game, but more commonly to skin and cut it up. See break, v. t., 12. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She drew his great hunting-knife, gazed reverently along the keen edge, half tempted to try it with her thumb, and shot it into place in its new home."
• "Arctic, strange stone lamps, passing in trade from tribe to tribe, no one knew whence, and, once, a hunting-knife of English make; and here, Subienkow knew, was the school in which to learn geography."
• "His weight was probably ninety pounds, with the heavy hunting-knife thrown in, and his grizzled hair told of a prime which had ceased to be."