Puzzle Description:

Classic Bowie Knife

#1: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jul 14, 2018

Fun solve.

I didn't know the hilt used to bend like that!

A quick look around says it did! And that it didn't!

The original was probably more like a butcher's knife with a straight back and no guard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_knife#Origin_and_description

However, it was quickly picked up on after Jim Bowie's famous Sandbar Fight and elaborated. It evolved into a large knife with a curved hilt and clipped blade that was either sharpened or not on the back. It is quite possible that the one that Jim Bowie had in the Alamo was actually mass-produced in England as a "Bowie knife" to satisfy the American demand.

A humorous definition of the knife is "a Bowie had to be sharp enough to use as a razor, heavy enough to use as a hatchet, long enough to use as a sword and broad enough to use as a paddle."

Something that I used to know and then forgot is that it is pronounced {BOO - ee] rather than [BOW - ee].

i thought a boo - ee (buoy) was something that floats in water and bow - ee (Bowie) was a singer, she says with tongue in cheek. ;)

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