Translation of knife (English-English)

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drawknife: a woodworker`s tool having a blade with a handle at each end used to shave off surfaces by drawing it toward one
Category: Building industry

drawknife: a woodworker`s tool having a blade with a handle at each end for use in sharing off surfaces
Category: Various industries and crafts

jack-knife: a method,which reduces bias in estimation and provides approximate confidence intervals in cases where ordinary distribution theory proves difficult
Category: Mathematics

Jackknife: a dive in which the diver bends in midair to touch his toes and straightens out immediately before entering the water.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

jacknife: When the semi-trailer goes out of control and swings around at an acute angle to the tractor.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

jacknife: ..the -- is the least expensive. The back drops to seat level to form a bed 42 inches wide....Storage space for bed linens is concealed under the --.
Category: Domestic economy

knife: in hand plates,the chisel that does the cutting
Category: Mechanical engineering

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