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pocket knife
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thumb|A collection of pocketknives thumb|A Swiss Army knife made by [[Victorinox]]
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Peasant knife
- Slip joint knife
- Multi-tool knives
- Miscellaneous designs
- Lock-blade knives
- Tactical folding knife
- Other features
- Legal issues
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A collection of pocketknives thumb|A Swiss Army knife made by [[Victorinox]]
A pocketknife (also spelled as pocket knife) is a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle. It is also known as a jackknife, or a folding knife. It may be referred to as a penknife, though a penknife may also be a specific kind of pocketknife. A typical blade length is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pocket knife” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.