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Synonyms for knife-edge
| Grammar : Noun |
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Définition of knife-edge
- As in plica : noun fold
- As in plication : noun fold
- As in rimple : noun fold
- As in ruck : noun fold
- As in fold : noun double thickness
- A touch of a knife-edge to the rope, and the girl would be saved.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- Followed by another, he advanced along the knife-edge to their wounded comrade.
- Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London
- Her offered, her passive extent, in other words, was about that of a knife-edge.
- Extract from : « The Portrait of a Lady » by Henry James
- The points of the pins serve as a knife-edge for the rocker.
- Extract from : « The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 » by Various
- The knife-edge is then turned forward and made to cut its way out.
- Extract from : « A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4) » by Various
- For a moment it hung on the knife-edge of the world, and then dipped down and was gone.
- Extract from : « Wild Folk » by Samuel Scoville
- The town is balancing on the knife-edge of a panic at this moment.
- Extract from : « The City of Numbered Days » by Francis Lynde
- It is a wedge, but a wedge working on a different principle from a knife-edge.
- Extract from : « The Woodpeckers » by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
- At one place it ran along the crest of a ridge that was no more than a knife-edge.
- Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London
- He is slashed all up the forearm; my wrist is but scratched with a knife-edge.
- Extract from : « Helmet of Navarre » by Bertha Runkle
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