1. The handle or haft of a knife.
1798. Wilcocke, trans. Stavorinus’ Voy. E. Ind., I. vi. 377, note. The iron point … together with the blade of a knife … set in a knife-handle, common to them both.
2. Popular name of species of Razor-shell, Solen siliqua or S. ensis. Chiefly U.S.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 33. Knife-Handles, Solen s. Their figure … resembles the handle of a knife.
