jackknife in English

noun
1
a knife with a folding blade.
Adam had chosen a jackknife rather than a fixed blade.
2
a dive in which the body is first bent at the waist and then straightened.
But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise lounge or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
verb
1
move (one's body) into a bent or doubled-up position.
the Major jackknifed his thin body at the waist
noun

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1. 9 He tore off a segment of bread and slathered it with a jackknife blade of butter.

2. The jackknife Chelicera is subchelate (with fixed finger much reduced or absent) and is composed of two segments

3. Jackknife resampling is applied to bucketed data to calculate the sample variance of the percent change of a metric.

4. THE RED YEAR LOUIS TRACY It was a rather Battered jackknife, and Scattergood noticed that one blade had been broken off

5. When braking without Baffles, the liquid keeps surging forward and pushing against the front wall of the tank, dramatically shifting the weight in the tanker and increasing risk of jackknife or rollover.

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