List of knives used in food production

The list of knives in food production includes professional knives that are used as individual cutting tools in the food production branches of agriculture , fishing and hunting (branch A of NACE 2 ).

Surname	Synonyms	Industry	Description / dimensions / variants
Fishing knife			see fishing knife
Fishing knife	Fishing knife	Fishing (deep sea fishing / inland fishing)	Working knife, often as a large pocket or folding knife; for killing (heart attack) the fish previously stunned by a blow on the forehead and for gutting and scaling immediately after catching; With a stable, flexible and pointed blade, the upper side of the blade is partly designed as a fish scaler, while there are often additional tools for folding knives
Breaker Blade	Breaking knife, middling knife	hunt
Pry knife			see pry blade
Oyster knife	Oyster opener	Fishing (oyster fishing and farming)	for opening oysters to check their condition, etc .; In contrast to the oyster knives used in fish processing and catering, mostly in a simple form and without additional finger protection; with a short, thick blade with a sharp point
Oyster opener			see oyster knife
Tree ripper			see tear hook
Billhook			see hip
Bowie knife		hunt
Braxn			see practice (Schneitelung)
Cayul		Agriculture (also combat weapon)
Harvest knife		Agriculture	prehistoric forerunner and occasional companion of the sickle, for harvesting wild grain; made of straight wood or pieces of antler, with pieces of flint glued in using resin or similar
Filleting knife		fishing	for filleting (killed and gutted) fish directly after catching; with a narrow shape and a long, flexible blade with a tapered or rounded end
Finnish knife			see Puukko
Flint knife	Bacon knife	Fishing (whaling)
Garden hip	smallest variant of the hip; also: gardener's hip	Agriculture (horticulture, tree nurseries, fruit growing)
Gardener's hip			see garden hip
Muzzle knife			see pry blade
Neck catcher			see Nicker
Gertel	Variations of the hip in Switzerland, u. a. Schweizer Gertel (picture), as well as other, partly regional forms and names	Agriculture and forestry (in Switzerland)
Grindaknívur		Fishing (pilot whale catching)	Faroese hunting knife when catching pilot whales, for severing the spinal cord to kill the animal and for cutting the animal; with a handle 12 to 15 cm long and a 18-20 cm long blade
Harzer knife			see resin plane
Resin plane	Ripping knife, Harz knife	forestry	historical knife for resin extraction, for drawing the V-shaped cutting grooves as resin increases; various shapes, such as with an acute-angled sharp-edged metal arch and opposite a rounded steel blade on each end of a wooden handle
Haubergsknipp			see Knipp
Skinning knife			see Skinner
Heppe			see hip
Hip		Agriculture, forestry, forestry
Deer catcher	(related: Saufänger)	hunt	historical stabbing weapon for intercepting (killing) the deer during the parforce hunt; in the form of a shorter hunting sword, with a length of around 30 to 40 cm
Hunting knife		hunt
Paring knife		Fishing (whaling)	historical working knife used in whaling in the 18th century; used to cut ropes or tows; resembles today's rigging, boat or sailor knife (picture); with wooden handle and straight blade with a mostly rounded point (to avoid stab injuries due to the movement of the ship)
Knicker			see Nicker
Click	Variations of the hip in Siegerland; also: Haubergsknipp	Agriculture and forestry (Haubergwirtschaft)
Leuku	(related: Puukko)	hunt	traditional Sami hunting and slicing knife
machete		Agriculture (plant cultivation / sugar production)
Mora	(same design: Puukko)	Hunting (and utility knife)	Swedish all-purpose and hunting knife based on the same design as the Finnish Puukko, named after the Swedish production site Mora
Nod	Knicker, nod catcher, neck catcher	hunt
Nick catcher			see Nicker
Practices (hunting)		hunt	historical hunting tool for chopping game, sometimes also used as a stand-tuscher; in the form of a large and wide knife, blade length up to 40 cm and blade height up to 10 cm
Practice (Schneitelung)	Variant of the hip in Central and Southeastern Europe; also: Braxn, Praxn	Agriculture and forestry (Schneitelwirtschaft)	historical, larger knife in the shape of a hip, which was used in regions with little grassland such as in the Alpine region for fodder production by cutting fodder trees;
Practice			see practice (Schneitelung)
Puukko	Finnish knife (same type: Mora / related: Leuku)	Hunting (and utility knife)	traditional all-purpose and hunting knife of the Finns, carried in a sheath on the belt; Wooden handle knife with a relatively short, single-edged blade with a Scandinavian cut and a straight blade back
Vine knife	Variant of the hip; also: wine knife	Agriculture (viticulture)	historical working knife in the form of a small hip, which was used in viticulture by winemakers to prune the vines, to cut out the grapes and during the harvest; Has practically not been used since the pruning shears were introduced around 1950; designed for a pulling cut, with a sickle-shaped curved blade (with the cutting edge on the inside) made of forged steel and a handle made of wood
Rice knife (Cambodia)	Drawing sickle	Agriculture (rice cultivation)	traditional tool, which is partly used until the present (2020) in Cambodia for the rice harvest;
Tear hook	Tree ripper	forestry	Knife or folding knife for permanent and "sharp" marking of wood; with a U-shaped blade tip, mostly ground on the outside; shaped similar to a resin plane; has been largely replaced by color markings in forestry
Drawing sickle			see rice knife (Cambodia)
Ripping knife			see resin plane
Roncette			see hip
Roncola			see hip
Säsli	Variant of the hip in the Black Forest	Agriculture and forestry (Reutbergwirtschaft)
Drunkards	(related: Hirschfänger)	hunt	Hunting knives for catching (killing) wild boar; in the form of a heavy, wide dagger ground on both sides
Schneier			see hip
Swiss Gertel			see Gertel
Skinner	Skinning knife	hunt
Standhauer		hunt	historical hunting tool with which the hunter's stand and his field of fire were cleared of vegetation (this function is now fulfilled by the more versatile woad leaf); in the form of a broad-bladed cutting knife with a long straight blade, some with saw teeth
Bacon knife			see Flensmesser
Tulle knife		hunt	historical hunting knife, which could be attached to the barrel muzzle ("spout") of a hunting weapon or around it by appropriately shaping the handle, thus increasing the range of the knife; formerly mainly used in Austria and Tyrol
Woad cutlery		hunt	traditional set of two knives, consisting of a woad leaf and a nicker (sometimes also referred to as an accessory knife ), which are carried in a sheath
Woad leaf		hunt
Wine knife			see vine knife

List of knives used in food production

See also