Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. cutting equipment
8. cutting tools

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Weapons and Ammunition
5. weapons
6. armaments
7. edged weapons

Narrower term/s

• palette knives (painting equipment) [NP]
• stencil knives
• gauge knives
• hand knives
• hawkbill knives
• swivel knives [NP]
• ulus (knives)
• elastic knives [NP]
• plaster knives [NP]
• linoleum knives
• rushworking knives [NP][+]
  • picking knives
  • willow knives
• froes [NP][+]
  • knife froes
  • cooper's froes
• woodworking knives [NP][+]
  • drawknives (woodworking tools) [+]
    • backing drawknives
    • chamfer knives
    • heading drawknives
    • jiggers (drawknives)
    • mast drawknives
    • barking drawknives
    • cooper's drawknives [+]
      • cooper's downshaves
  • block knives
  • sloyd knives
  • bench knives
  • heel knives
• harvesting knives [NP][+]
  • corn knives
  • hay knives
• machetes (knives)
• race knives
• utility knives
• pocket knives[+]
  • penknives
  • jackknives
  • clasp knives
  • switchblade knives [NP]
• putty knives [NP]
• painting knives [NP]
• fleshing knives [NP]
• letter openers
• scalpels[+]
  • dental scalpels [NP]
• gold knives [NP]
• erasing knives
• billhooks [NP]
• knife weapons[+]
  • dirks
  • bowie knives
  • throwing knives [NP] [+]
    • throwing knife money [NP]
  • daggers (weapons) [NP] [+]
    • poniards
    • baselards
    • cinquedeas
    • eared daggers
    • ballock daggers
    • Landsknecht daggers
    • left-hand daggers
    • stilettos (daggers) [+]
      • gunners' stilettos
    • trench knives
    • arm daggers
    • saxes (edged weapons)
    • rondel daggers
    • misericordes (edged weapons)
    • knife-daggers
    • katars
    • kindjals
    • yatagans
  • switchblade knives
  • bolos (weapons)
  • kopes [NP]
  • finger knives [NP]
  • wrist knives [NP]
  • ceremonial knives [NP] [+]
    • ikula
    • ge (ceremonial knives)
    • tumi
• culinary knives[+]
  • carving knives
  • cutlery [NP] [+]
    • shears (cutting tools) [NP] [+]
      • metalworking shears [NP] [+]
      • lever shears [NP]
      • pinking shears [NP]
      • hedge shears [NP]
      • pruning shears [NP]
      • grape shears [NP]
      • sugar cutters [NP] [+]
      • poultry shears [NP]
      • sheep shears [NP]
      • sewing shears [NP]
      • animal shears [NP]
      • band cutter shears [NP]
      • basketmaker's shears [NP]
      • dressmaker's shears [NP]
      • dental shears [NP]
      • glass shears [NP]
      • fabric shears [NP] [+]
      • fetlock shears [NP]
      • fishing shears [NP]
      • fuller's shears [NP]
      • horse shears [NP]
      • grass shears [NP]
      • medical shears [NP]
      • leather shears [NP]
      • rib shears [NP]
      • portfire shears [NP]
      • squaring shears [NP]
      • thinning shears [NP]
  • boning knives
  • butcher knives
  • chopping knives
  • paring knives (peelers)
  • crumbers [NP]
  • [knives for serving food] [+]
    • butter knives
    • cake knives
    • ice-cream knives
    • cheese knives (serving utensils)
    • bread knives
    • serving knives [NP]
  • place knives [+]
    • dessert knives
    • table knives
    • fish knives
    • fruit knives
    • steak knives
    • butter spreaders
    • entrée knives
    • entrée forks
  • oyster knives
  • curd knives [NP]
  • cooks' knives
  • serving knives [NP]
  • benediction knives
  • fillet knives
  • kitchen knives [+]
    • grapefruit knives
    • ham knives
    • santoku knives
  • pastry knives
  • poultry killing knives [NP]
  • produce knives [+]
    • orange knives
  • sticking knives [NP]
• moon knives
• rotary cutters (knives)
• sacrificial knives
• sailmaker's knives
• crooked knives
• saw-backed knives
• champagne knives

Anotations

Scope note:

Cutting instruments consisting of a blade with a sharpened longitudinal edge fixed in a handle, either rigidly as in a table-, carving, or sheath-knife, or with a joint as in a pocket- or clasp-knife. Knives may be used to cut food, especially in serving and eating, as weapons, and for other purposes. The blade may be of steel or another metal or stone, as in the flint knives of early man, or of another material such as ivory or wood (as with a paperknife). The term also refers to tools that are shaped or used as knives, even if the edge is not particularly sharp or actually used for cutting.