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Penknife, or pen knife, is a small folding knife. Today penknife is also the common British English term for both a pocketknife, which can have single or multiple blades, and for , with additional tools incorporated into the design.
A penknife did not necessarily have a folding blade, but might resemble a scalpel or chisel by having a short, fixed blade at the end of a long handle.
During the 20th century there was a proliferation of multi-function pocketknives with assorted blades and gadgets, the most famous of which is the Swiss Army knife, referred to in British English as penknives.
A larger folding knife than a penknife, especially one in which the blade locks into place as a protection, as for skinning animals, is referred to by some as a claspknife.
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