List of knife types
The list of knife types is use-oriented with regard to the knife. Individual knife series or regional variants can be found in the more general list of knives .
Since the Stone Age , when today's ancestors discovered flints , from which he peeled blades with the help of blowstones and sharpened them by hammering the edges, the knife has been a universal tool that can be precisely adapted to the intended use and its user can. That is why there are not only knives in a wide variety of sizes, but also a wide variety of types.
While the main article Knife describes its history, development and possible uses, this article lists the various types of knives and specialties and leads on to individual articles.
Kitchen knife
• Pineapple cutter
• Apple divider
• ...
Cheese knife
• Cheese Slicer
• Parmesan knife
• ...
Hunting Knife
• Nicker
• Waidblatt
• ...
Straight razor
• Safety razor
• System razor
• ...
Draw knife
• Tail plane
• Draw knife
• ...
A.
- Skinning knife, see butcher knife
- Stripping knife
- Cutting knife
- Aikuchi
- Utility knife, see kitchen knives
- Pineapple cutter
- Apple divider
- Opening knives , see butcher knives and hunting knives
- Boning knife, see butcher knives and kitchen knives
- Athame
B.
- Backlock
- bayonet
- Balisong
- Bandolero knife
- Bauernwehr (also house guard)
- Professional knife
- Binder knife
- Block knife, see butcher knife
- Boot knife, see Ship knife
- Bowie knife
- Letter opener
- Bread knife, see kitchen knife
- Snack knife, see traditional knives
- Colored knives, also colored cutting knives , see kitchen knives
- Cutlasses, see Machete
- Butter knife, see kitchen knife
- Butterfly knife, see Balisong knife
C.
- Chaveta
- Surgical knives , e.g. B. Scalpel
- Cutter (carpet knife)
D.
- Damask knife
- Deba knife
- Deba bōchō, see Deba knife
- Diamond knife Special type of knife for microtomes
- Dirk
- dagger
E.
F.
- Travel knife
- Drop knife
- Fascine knife
- Faustmesser (also: Faustdolch)
- Penknife
- Surveyor
- Filleting knife (also: filleting knife)
- Finger knife
- Finn knife
- Fish knife, see kitchen knives
- Fixing knife
- Meat knives , see kitchen knives and butcher knives
- For fruit knives, see kitchen knives
- Veneer knife
G
H
- Hape, see vine knife
- House guard see Bauernwehr
- Heppe, see Hippe
- Hip
- Deer catcher
- Plane iron
I.
J
- Hunting knife
- Jagdnicker, see Nicker (knife)
- Hunting pocket knives , see hunting knives and pocket knives
- Jambia
- Japanese knife, see cutter (knife)
K
- Cheese knife, see kitchen knife
- Cable knife
- Combat knife
- Paring knife
- Cardboard knife, see working knife
- Karambit
- Waiter's knife
- Children's knife
- Putty knife
- Folding knife, see pocket knife
- Chef's knife, see kitchen knives
- Copulation knife , see graft knife
- Copulating knife , see grafting knife
- Kris
- kitchenknife
- Knicker, see Nicker
- Kukri
L.
M.
- Machete ( machete )
- Machine knife
- Sailor knives, see ship knives
- Microtome knife
N
O
- Fruit knife, see kitchen knives
- Office knives, see kitchen knives
- Grafting knife
- Opinel
- OTF knife, see switchblade knife
- Outdoor knife, see field knife (knife)
P
R.
S.
- Säsli, see hip
- Santoku
- Boozer, see Hirschfänger
- Sax
- Segment knife, see cutter (knife)
- Paring knife
- Ship knife
- Butterfly knife, see Balisong knife
- Carving knife
- Swiss Army Knife see also pocket knife
- Safety knife
- scalpel
- Skinner
- Special knife , see butcher knife
- Sports knife
- Switchblade
- Standhauer
- Stanley knife, see Cutter (knife)
- Boot knife
- Stiletto, see: Trachtenmesser
- System razor
T
- Tactical knife , see survival knife
- Tanto
- Wallpaper knife
- pocket knife
- Diving knife
- Carpet knife, see cutter
- Tomato knife, see kitchen knife
- Paring knife, see kitchen knives and paring knives
- Costume knife
- Carving knife, see kitchen knives
- Separating knife
- Tumi
- Tscherper (mining)
U
- Survival knife , see field knife
V
W.
- Woad leaf
- Forest knife, e.g. B. Puukko
- Wine knife , see vine knife
- Chopping knife, see kitchen knives
- Throwing knife
Z
- Cutting knife, see butcher knife
- Goat knife, see Hippe
- Cigar cutter (cigar knife)
- Draw knife