knivesman

English

Noun

knivesman (plural knivesmen)

1. Alternative form of knifesman.
   • 1831, Robert Liston, Elements of Surgery, part second, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […]; and Adam Black, Edinburgh, page 286:

     Extirpation of such growths has been repeatedly attempted, but the patients, almost without exception, have perished from hæmorrhage, under the hands of the knivesmen.

   • 1913, Edmund Carleton, Homoeopathy in Medicine and Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, page 36:

     A pus case that actually threatens neighboring parts should have interference—the abscess to be opened when ripe. However, I do not trust the judgment of a knivesman in making decisions, because he is one-sided. He has neither patience nor belief in medicine.

   • 1987, John Weisman, Blood Cries, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 114:

     He paid no attention to the Shin Bet man but rapped on the counter, bought a hundred grams for himself and then started down past the butcher shops, peering inside to watch as the dexterous knivesmen stripped carcasses to make schnitzel shel hodu—turkey cutlets.