penknife

Converse of object

• use: He used a penknife where St. Vincent took a hatchet, to employ his own figure.
• carry: If you usually carry a penknife, make sure you leave it behind as the police could conceivably construe it as an offensive weapon.
• wield: Gone are the 'paint scrape ' days when decisions were based on the conclusions reached by wielding a blunt penknife.

Adjective modifier

• little: The battery was evidently fully charged as a large spark shot out when Paul jabbed his little penknife scissors into the contacts.
• small: He tried to get in with the blade of a very small penknife.
• rusty: He found a dirty handkerchief, a conker on a piece of string and a rusty old penknife.
• sharp: With my sharp penknife I opened a vein in one of the whitest arms I ever beheld.
• bladed: This double bladed penknife was made by E.A. Cantrell & Sons of Sheffield during the late 19th or early 20th Century.
• folding: A lock knife is not classed as a folding penknife.

Modifies a noun

• blade: As it was opened, they found a point of a penknife blade inside.
• style: Penknife style tools There are a number of tools available which fold up in the style of a penknife.