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Knife-edge   /naɪf-ɛdʒ/   Listen
Knife-edge

noun
1.
A narrow boundary.






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"Knife-edge" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be guessed at from the vastness of the area which it had shaken for two years. So, when the eruption was over, it was found that the old crater-lake, incredible as it may seem, remained undisturbed, so far as has been ascertained; but close to it, and separated only by a knife-edge of rock some 700 feet in height, and so narrow that, as I was assured by one who had seen it, it is dangerous to crawl along it, a second crater, nearly as large as the first, had been blasted out, the bottom of which, in like manner, was ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various



Words linked to "Knife-edge" :   boundary, bound, limit



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