"fascine knife" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fəˈsiːn ˌnaɪf/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fæ-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fəˈsin ˌnaɪf/ [General-American], /fəˈsiːn ˌnaɪvz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fəˈsin ˌnaɪvz/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fascine knife.wav Forms: fascine knives [plural]
Etymology: From fascine + knife, from one use of such knives which was to cut wood for fascines and gabions (“cylindrical wicker baskets or cages filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications, etc.”). Etymology templates: {{circa2|1861|short=1}} c. 1861, {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰask-|*gneybʰ-}}, {{compound|en|fascine|knife|notext=1|type=exocentric}} fascine + knife Head templates: {{en-noun|fascine knives}} fascine knife (plural fascine knives)
  1. (military, weaponry, historical) A large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting fascines (“cylindrical bundles of small sticks of wood, used for strengthening purposes”) and other things. Wikipedia link: Confederate States Army, Swedish Army Tags: historical Categories (topical): Knives, Military, Swords, Weapons Related terms: machete Translations (large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool): hukari (Finnish), coupe-chou [informal, masculine] (French), Faschinenmesser [neuter] (German), атльг (atlʹg) (Kalmyk), kapotė (Lithuanian), faskinkniv [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tasak [masculine] (Polish), chifarote (Portuguese), terçado [masculine] (Portuguese), traçado [masculine] (Portuguese), tesac [historical, neuter] (Romanian), теса́к (tesák) [masculine] (Russian), machete [masculine] (Spanish), faskinkniv [common-gender] (Swedish), тесак (tesak) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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          "text": "[I]f he were furnished with a hundred natives—whom he would get from the population on the coast—supplied with axes and fascine-knives, he would undertake to lead a caravan of beasts of burden to the Kenia without any delay worth mentioning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, [William] Balck, “The Formal Tactics of Infantry”, in Walter Krueger, transl., Tactics […], 4th edition, volumes I (Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry), Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: United States Cavalry Association, →OCLC, footnote ‡, page 39:",
          "text": "Sappeur sections carry in addition a mattock or a pick apiece, and each ammunition carrier also carries a pick, a fascine knife, or a saw.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Bill Harriman, “Development: Blades for Firearms”, in Martin Pegler, editor, The Bayonet (Weapon; 78), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Later, some military fascine knives were made with saw-toothed backs, notably the Prussian M1810, M1841 and M1855 Faschinenmesser. Fascine knives were widely issued to engineers, pioneers and foot-artillerymen; smaller numbers were issued to other arms as circumstances dictated.",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "word": "hukari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coupe-chou"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Faschinenmesser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "砲兵刀 (ほうへいとう, hōhei gatana, literally “artilleryman’s knife”)",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool"
    },
    {
      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
      "roman": "atlʹg",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "word": "атльг"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "word": "kapotė"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "faskinkniv"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tasak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "word": "chifarote"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "terçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "traçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tesac"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tesák",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "теса́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "machete"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "faskinkniv"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tesak",
      "sense": "large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тесак"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fascine knife"
}

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