Definition of "knife-grinder" []

• One whose business it is to grind or sharpen knives; especially, one who goes about seeking for employment in sharpening cutting-instruments: in the United States more commonly called a scissorsgrinder. (noun)
• A grindstone, emery-wheel, or other machine for grinding knives. (noun)
• The night-jar: same as grinder, 3. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A few doors from the bakery, a knife-grinder was set - ting up his display cases along the sidewalk."
• "The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden times, all are subjects of this fairy."
• "A knife-grinder came and set up his stall right next to my tree."