knifer


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knife

 (nīf)
n. pl. knives (nīvz)
1. A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
2. A cutting edge; a blade.
v. knifed, knif·ing, knifes
v.tr.
1. To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
2. Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
v.intr.
To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife: The boat knifed through the waves.
Idiom:
under the knife Informal
Undergoing surgery.
[Middle English knif, from Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knīfr.]
knif′er n.
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knifer

n → Messerstecher m
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'I said so; Jacks; and Chayner men: and hother Knifers.'
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Returning to the ranch after dealing with the vicious killer, Knifer, and his midget partner, Plug, in Denver, Rafe and Cookie discover a cryptic telegram from Jack, something about a phoenix, a word that conjures specters from their secret-agent war days.
The Outfit: Blood and Ashes
Active from 1959 until 1966, the group--whose other participants included artists Dimitrije Basicevic (better known as Mangelos), Julije Knifer, Ivan Kozaric and Duro Seder, architect Miljenko Horvat and critic Matko Mestrovic--was not bound by an aesthetic allegiance so much as by a Dadaist-tinged disregard for convention, which they lovingly touted as the "Gorgonic spirit." Drawing from the legacy of the 1920s-era Yugoslavian magazine Zenit, as well as contemporaneous groups such as Zero, Azimuth, and Fluxus, Gorgona published an eponymous journal from 1961 through 1966.
Gorgona: KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN

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