carving knife• When the first coal fell he went out with a pot and a carving knife.• Dropping down into the galley for a carving knife, he cut the ropeloose from his neck.• Her son had been stabbed twice through the back with a carving knife, as he lay in his cot.• His carving knife was only about half an inchwide at the centre where constantsharpening had worn it away.• Dadtests the blade of the carving knife.