Knives

thumb|upright=1.5|alt=Large knife with polished wooden handle, close to a leather sheath|A Bowie knife of [[pattern-welded steel]]

stone used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing

thumb|An elaborate Celts|Celtic scabbard in two colours of bronze, thumb|A 1916 leather scabbard for a saddle Winchester Model 1873|lever-action rifle of Jack Peters, a ranch hand who worked on the Grant-Kohrs Ranch in [[Powell County, Montana]] A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar edged weapons. Rifles and other long guns may also be stored in scabbards by horse riders for transportation. Military cavalry and cowboys had scabbards for their saddle ring carbines and rifles for transportation and protection. Scabbards have been made of many materials over the m

type of folding knife

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The karambit or kerambit (as used in Indonesian), kurambik or karambiak (both from the Minangkabau language) is a small curved knife resembling a claw.

pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife

upright|thumb|The Knife-grinder by Goya shows a man using a portable grindstone. thumb|Two lumberjacks using a hand-powered grindstone to sharpen an axe during World War I A grindstone, also known as grinding stone, is a sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools, used since ancient times. Tools are sharpened by the stone's abrasive qualities that remove material from the tool through friction in order to create a fine edge. Similar to sandpaper, each stone has a different grit that will result in sharper or duller tools. In Australia, Aboriginal peoples created grindi

an implement used for cutting open sealed envelopes

knife designed to be thrown

knife used for general or utility purposes

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artist's tool used to apply paint to the canvas

ivory and flint knife dating from Egyptian prehistory

right|thumb|350px|Traditional puukko with birch handle and full-length fuller A puukko () is a small traditional Finnish general purpose belt knife with a single curved cutting edge, solid hidden tang, and usually, a flat spine.

large cutting tool of Filipino origin

type of knife

knives intended for survival purposes in a wilderness environment

thumb|Staghorn thumb|A being worn on the leg The ' ( ; ) – also anglicized as skene-dhu' – is a small, single-edged knife () worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland dress. It is now worn tucked into the top of the kilt hose with only the upper portion of the hilt visible. The is normally worn on the same side as the dominant hand.

type of knife

thumb|An ulu in the western Arctic style An ulu (; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo. They are widely sold as souvenirs in Alaska.

artist's equipment

small sheath knife

process of manufacturing a knife

the larger of the two Saami knives

thumb|200px|Ottoman kard dagger, 18th to 19th century, stone hilt with gold koftgari inscriptions, metal scabbard with carved decorations set with gems.

Traditional Yakut knife

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botidao also known as chulesi, botki, dao, da, aruvamanai, chulesi, pavshi, vili, morli, pahsul or pirdai is a cutting instrument, most prevalent in Nepal, Maharashtra, South India, Bihar, Pakistan and the Bengal region, Bihar, Tripura, the Barak Valley of Assam.

Dagger originating from Gujarat

improvised knife-like weapon

An ikul or ikula is a knife or a short sword of the Kuba of the Democratic Republic of Congo. thumb|150px|Ikul knife

thumb|300px|right|A froe A froe (or frow), shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. It is an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end of a piece of wood in the direction of the grain, then twisting the blade in the wood by rotating the haft (handle).

thumb|Trumbash with an ivory handle A trumbash or trombash is a Mangbetu throwing knife from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

working on a knife blade to make it sharper

thumb|right|Modern pesh-kabz with scabbard made in [[India. Blade: steel; hilt: buffalo horn and brass.]] thumb|right|Pesh-kabz, 18th century. Blade: gilt steel; hilt: gilt ivory or bone, Louvre Museum, Paris France. The pesh-kabz or peshkabz (, ) is a type of Indo-Persian knife designed to penetrate mail armour and other types of armour. The word is also spelled pesh-qabz or pish-ghabz and means "fore-grip" in the Persian language; it was borrowed into the Hindustani language. Originally created during Safavid Persia, it became widespread in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent during the

A sengese is a throwing knife of the Matakam from northeastern Nigeria or northern Cameroon. thumb|Sengese from Cameroon thumb|Sengese blade

Contemporary statue of an angel made out of confiscated knives.

type of Billhook-Axe hybrid

An onzil (or osele or musele) is a throwing knife of ethnic groups from eastern Gabon (Kota, Fang, Mbété). thumb|Onzil from eastern Gabon

African curved execution sword

knives made from artillery shells

A cimpaba (sometimes tshimphaaba or chimpaba) is a sword from the Woyo of the Democratic Republic of Congo. thumb|180px|Cimpaba

knife designed to inflict injury

type of knife

knife blade shape

Eunjangdo is a type of silver knife or norigae historically worn in Korea.