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A replica Arkansas Toothpick on display board. In modern terminology, the Arkansas toothpick is a heavy dagger with a 12-to-20-inch (30 to 51 cm) pointed, straight blade. [1] The knife can be used for thrusting and slashing. James Black, known for improving the Bowie knife, [2] is credited with inventing the Arkansas toothpick. [1]
A toothpick is a small thin stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal, bone or other substance with at least one and sometimes two pointed ends to insert between teeth to remove detritus, usually after a meal.
He was known many times to fight and dispatch in hand-to-hand combat bear and cougars using a self-made custom Bowie knife, more precisely a double edged S-shaped large Arkansas toothpick dagger, named "The Lilly Knife".
Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US) Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) Corvo (19th-century Chile) Gerber Mark II (1967) Push dagger; United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII) V-42 stiletto (WWII) "Yank" Levy fighting knife
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
In 1971, Lile became a full-time knifemaker and was known as "Gentleman Lile" or "The Arkansas Knifemaker". [3] He was particularly known for his Survival knife designs known as "The Mission" series, created by request for Sylvester Stallone to use in his first two Rambo movies. These designs would go on to influence other knife makers in the ...
Arkansas asphalt A road made of logs. [2] Arkansas fire extinguisher A chamberpot. [1] Arkansas toothpick A knife with an extra-legal blade. [1] Aztec hop Dysentary or diarrhea. [1] Baltimore beef steak Liver. [1] Boston strawberries Beans. [1] Bronx cheer. [1] California Bible = California prayer book. [1] California bank notes Silver and ...
My research indicates that the term Arkansas Toothpick probably arose in the civil war time frame to refer to the large knives, also known as Bowie Knives that were carried by Arkansas Soldiers. I do not think that "Toothpick" is a distinct and separate design from the Bowie Knife.Aleutian06 21:42, 24 November 2010 (UTC)