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Cooking tools
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Whittling
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A knife meant to be used on wood for carving. This may be used to sharpen pencils or to make works of art. The blade is typically small compared to the handle.
kabar
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A combat knife that gained its name after a trapper found himself without any other weapons and facing a bear. He wrote an illegible letter describing how he killed the bear, which was misread as "ka ...
oyster knife
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
This knife's short but thick blade allows it to be inserted into an oyster's shell and subsequently pry the oyster's shell open. Used in preparing oysters for consumption as well as getting pearls.
boning
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A kitchen knife with a narrower blade used in the removal of bones from poultry, meat, and fish. Its thin blade allows its insertion so that it can peel off the meat from the bone easily.
X-Acto
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A knife intended for arts and crafts, with a small detachable blade not unlike a scalpel's. Often used to trace straight cuts onto paper and whittle wood.
Cutter
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A term used for the X-Acto knife in parts of the world that has come to mean a boxcutter with a blade that snaps off to bring out a newer and sharper section once it is dulled.
Straight Razor
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A knife with a hollow-ground blade used for getting close to skin and shaving the hair off. This sort of knife requires great maintenance to keep itself sharp and usable.
