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third-person singular simple present knives, present participle kniving, simple past and past participle knived
Rare form of knife. quotations examples
all small weak Shoots should be cut close to the main Stems; and (generally speaking) nipping with your Nails, is a better Way than kniving of them.
1733, Practical Husbandman and Planter
Our brains always ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.
1917/1918, Wilfred Owen, “Exposure”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
The Greeks were always fighting, drunk, and kniving each other.
2009, Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny, page 161
I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.
2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories
Great sheets of rain began kniving horizontally like slashing shards.
2014, Steve Ruedlinger, Almost Paradise, page 30