noun

• A knife with a blade that folds into the handle.

  ‘It was a clasp knife with a broken hasp and it swung open with the sound of a cockroach's shell crunching underfoot.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Abruptly, I remember the stranger's last words, and dig into my pocket, drawing forth the clasp knife, wordlessly holding it out for her.’
  • ‘Being thus provided with an opportunity to ruminate it was impossible not to think of the happy recovery of my clasp knife.’
  • ‘Perhaps the most diagnostic type is the clasp knife that is frequently found on eighteenth-century French sites throughout interior North America.’
  • ‘Pulling worn roping gloves over his hands, he took out a clasp knife.’