fascine knife (English, noun)
expansion: fascine knife (plural fascine knives)
Senses:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting fascines (“cylindrical bundles of small sticks of wood, used for strengthening purposes”) and other things.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: fascine knives
tags: plural