kukri
- noun
- /ˈkuːkri/
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kukri
- During the ceremony, he offered a traditional kukri as a symbol of honor and respect.
Examples
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"Give me your kukri," he said to Jung.
Fiction book (1994) -
It was not that Jago Antia minded the defeat, because he had learned to accept defeat, casualties, and loss, but it was that he had once defeated this flesh; it was he who had swung the kukri, but it had come back now and surprised him.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the central action of this scene, Harker slashes at Dracula with his Kukri knife, "making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold fell out" (394).
Academic text (2007) -
He steadied himself and gripped it with both hands, shut his eyes for a moment, and there was impossibly the sound of the sea inside him, a sob rising in his throat. He opened his eyes and fought it, pulled against it with his shoulders as he raised the kukri above his head against darkness and mad sorrow, and then he brought the blade down below his knee.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Gurkha proudly displayed his kukri, a blade with deep cultural significance in Nepal.
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She carefully polished her kukri, which had been passed down through generations in her family.
Synonyms
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A dagger with a wavy blade that people in Southeast Asia use for fighting or ceremonies
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Kukri comes from Nepal and the Nepali word khukuri, which means a 'curved' knife used by Gurkha soldiers and for everyday chopping and cutting. The deep inward curve is the blade's key feature, so the name points directly to that special curved knife.