On the table were plates, knives and forks, and dishes of bread, meat and fruits.
One of his knives had blood on the hilt.
They need to know not to play with knives.
Formerly knives were made of bamboo, which is still sometimes used for that purpose.
Long thin one-edged knives of iron begin about 800 B.C. Various forms of one-edged iron knives, straight (24) and curved (25), belong to Roman times.