v. [f. KNIFE sb., on analogy of wife, wive; strife, strive, etc.] = KNIFE v.
1850. F. Walpole, The Ansayrii, II. 8. A brute who in cold blood knived and tortured them with his own hand.
1883. E. F. Knight, Cruise ‘Falcon’ (1887), 153. These race-meetings at the ferry, he said, end as a rule in considerable kniving.
