"California toothpick" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1856, W.G. Simms, Eutaw, page 142:",
          "text": "the latter a most formidable weapon, only inferior in size and weight to the modern \"California toothpick.\"",
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          "ref": "1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge, page 142:",
          "text": "Men cut each other with \"California toothpicks\" (bowie knives). Mosquitoes swarmed in the hot evenings.",
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          "ref": "1967, Theressa Gay, James W. Marshall, The Discoverer of California Gold, A Biography, page 216:",
          "text": "Provisions to last a year or more were put on board, together with all sorts of mining equipment - spades, shovels, picks, the newest and best in gold washing machines, fire kindlers, life preservers, pails for collecting gold, California soap to wash gold, California gold sifters, California toothpicks.",
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        "A Bowie knife."
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        "(obsolete) A Bowie knife."
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