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puukko n.

from puukko "(sheath) knife": a Finnish style knife [from Finnish puu "wood"]. This entry suggested by Manu Pärssinen.

• "Custom puukko style hidden tang with handle of musk ox horn and amber", Mark Knapp Custom Knives.
• "Making the stretcher wasn't too hard, now that he had the puukko knife and the saber saw from his survival pack." S. M. Stirling, Dies the Fire, 2004, p. 29.
• "In shape, it was like a Finnish puukko knife, but what I liked best about the Sable IV was its size." L. Neil Smith, The American Zone, 2002, p. 84.
• "Leather goods and 'puukko' knives are among the best buys in Lapland." Jane Hutchings, Insight Guide Scandinavia, 2003, p. 349.
• "In the heavily wooded land the ax and puukko ('sheath knife') were part of every man's daily equipment as both tool and weapon." Eino Friberg, The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People, 1989, p. 366.
• "He unsheathed his puukko, his short-bladed knife, and poked his face into the room next door, where his father was slumbering through it all..." Richard Rayner, The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel, 2002, p. 23.
• "A few months ago he dropped by to show off a set of Finnish Puukko knives and invited himself for dinner." Jim Shepard, "The Gun Lobby: A Short Story", The Atlantic, Apr. 2001.