"byknife" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "by"
      },
      "expansion": "by",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "by-",
        "3": "knife"
      },
      "expansion": "by- + knife",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "byknife",
        "3": "byknife, byknyfe"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots byknife, byknyfe",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From by or by- + knife. Compare Scots byknife, byknyfe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "byknives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "byknives"
      },
      "expansion": "byknife (plural byknives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with by-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Knives",
          "orig": "en:Knives",
          "parents": [
            "Tools",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society, volume 2, page 5",
          "text": "This may represent either the top of some form of closure, or the pommel-cap of a byknife in the front of the sheath of the dagger, the remains of which are represented as if hung between the two suspension loops, its haft in front of the belt and its sheath behind the body of the pouch. It is of a type known to contemporaries as a ballock knife, that is a dagger with a phalliform haft or grip. An example of a byknife with just such a fleur-de-lis pommel is in the collection of the Canterbury City Museum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary knife carried beside a dagger or short sword."
      ],
      "id": "en-byknife-en-noun-4vEI6i-3",
      "links": [
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "dagger",
          "dagger"
        ],
        [
          "sword",
          "sword"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "byknife"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "by"
      },
      "expansion": "by",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "by-",
        "3": "knife"
      },
      "expansion": "by- + knife",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "byknife",
        "3": "byknife, byknyfe"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots byknife, byknyfe",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From by or by- + knife. Compare Scots byknife, byknyfe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "byknives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "byknives"
      },
      "expansion": "byknife (plural byknives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms prefixed with by-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Knives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society, volume 2, page 5",
          "text": "This may represent either the top of some form of closure, or the pommel-cap of a byknife in the front of the sheath of the dagger, the remains of which are represented as if hung between the two suspension loops, its haft in front of the belt and its sheath behind the body of the pouch. It is of a type known to contemporaries as a ballock knife, that is a dagger with a phalliform haft or grip. An example of a byknife with just such a fleur-de-lis pommel is in the collection of the Canterbury City Museum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary knife carried beside a dagger or short sword."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "dagger",
          "dagger"
        ],
        [
          "sword",
          "sword"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "byknife"
}