"clasp-knife" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1859, Journal of the British Archaeological Association:",
          "text": "...there is yet ample evidence of the existence of clasp-knives ages before the production of the Canterbury Tales. Among Etruscan antiquities in the Bronze Room of the British Museum are several clasp-knives, some of them with bone, others with bronze hafts, their blades being of iron — a metal employed for cutting implements by the Tyrrhenian tribes, at a far remote era.\nA scalprum or penknife has been found in Rome, the blade shutting into a bone haft, which is carved to represent the upper half of a human body; and clasp-knives, with iconic handles of the Roman era, have been discovered both in France and this country.",
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          "ref": "1886, R.M. Ballantyne, Red Rooney:",
          "text": "“Well, this knife is called a clasp-knife, because it shuts and opens, as you see, and it has three blades — a big one for cuttin’ up your victuals with, as you see me doin’; and two little ones for parin’ your nails and pickin’ your teeth, an’ mendin’ pens an’ pencils — though of course you don’t know what that means.”",
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          "ref": "1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 110:",
          "text": "Blake picked his teeth reflectively with the point of a clasp knife.",
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        "A knife with a hinged blade or blades that, for safety when not in use, can be folded into a slot in the handle."
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