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  • n  a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens

  • Asked by newsmen if he had changed his mind on disarmament, Khrushchev produced a penknife, said "I have this," and wondered aloud if the knife "could puncture such a sack" as .
  • His weapon was a common penknife.
  • Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen pencil set at home.

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