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Jackknife

verb
1.
Dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife.



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"Jackknife" Quotes from Famous Books



... turning at his secretary, and he stopped to pound his fist on its narrow ledge. "It's that damned Griffiths again and his cursed jackknife hull!" he exclaimed. The dark tide suffused his countenance. Gerrit studied him thoughtfully: he didn't know just how much William had yet told their father about the sweeping changes taking place in Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone. He did see, however, that ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer


Words linked to "Jackknife" :   dive, athletics, jackknife clam, diving, pocketknife, sport, jackknife-fish, clasp knife, pocket knife


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