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"Runcible spoon"
Keywords:
spoon
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lear
,
fork
,
edward
,
utensil
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Cleaver
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Flatware
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Mandolin
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Dirk
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Spoon
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Bowie knife
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Axe
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Glaive
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Dagger
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Machete
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Utility knife
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Chop
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Bolo
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Mandoline
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Stiletto
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Shred
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Wooden spoon
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Slice
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Razor
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Saber
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Sabre
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Parang
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Broadsword
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Mune
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Blade
,
Hatchet
,
Draw knife
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Ulu
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Poniard
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Whetstone
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Sickle
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Craft knife
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Swedge
a fork-like spoon with a cutting edge; coined by Edward Lear
wordnet.princeton.edu
a cross between a spoon and a fork
cstone.net
a kind of fork with three broad prongs or tines, one having a sharp edge, curved like a spoon, used with pickles, etc
lists.village.virginia.edu
a utensil suitable for runciation
factbites.com
A runcible spoon is a fictitious utensil that appears in the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear. More generally, the word "runcible" is also used of objects other than spoons in Lear's work. It is fundamentally a nonsense word.
en.wikipedia.org
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