bowie

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1. 1
   noun

   a Bowie knife: a large, heavy, single-edged sheath knife with a clipped point

   The frontiersman carried a bowie in a leather sheath at his belt.

An ellipsis of Bowie knife, named after the American frontiersman James Bowie (1796-1836), who became associated with the weapon after a celebrated 1827 fight. The exact maker and design of Bowie's original knife are disputed, but the name came to denote a large clipped-point fighting and hunting knife.

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