knive, v.
(naɪv)
[f. knife n., on analogy of wife, wive; strife, strive, etc.]
= knife v.
| 1850 F. Walpole The Ansayrii II. 8 A brute who in cold blood knived and tortured them with his own hand. 1883 E. F. Knight Cruise ‘Falcon’ (1887) 53 These race-meetings,..he said, end as a rule in considerable kniving. |