California toothpick

English Noun en obsolete A Bowie knife. en Missouri toothpick obsolete en 1856 Eutaw W.G. Simms 142 the latter a most formidable weapon, only inferior in size and weight to the modern "California toothpick." en 1942 Desert Challenge Richard Gordon Lillard 142 Men cut each other with "California toothpicks" (bowie knives). Mosquitoes swarmed in the hot evenings. en 1967 James W. Marshall, The Discoverer of California Gold, A Biography Theressa Gay 216 Provisions to last a year or more were put on board, together with all sorts of mining equipment - spades, shovels, picks, the newest and best in gold washing machines, fire kindlers, life preservers, pails for collecting gold, California soap to wash gold, California gold sifters, California toothpicks.