Now the man with the crooked knife advanced a little, accompanied by another man, a tall, supple-looking knave, into whose ear he whispered.

He straightened with a crooked Kurdish knife in his hand.

Might 'ave 'ad one of them crooked knives in him before now but for me who give 'em the slip in Hull.

He wore only a skirt of leather strips, a crooked knife and a very modern blaster.

Final surfacing is sometimes performed with a crooked knife.

Better a crooked sharp knife than a straight dull one.

I took the lights away, and the offering bowls, and threw the crooked knife into the lake.

The crooked in "crooked knife" refers to its unusual shape with the handle set at an oblique angle to the blade.

He stared down at the aged man who had picked up a piece of leather and was now shaping it deftly with a crooked little knife.

Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe, and crooked knife.