Kaiser blade

English right|thumb Noun en US especially Mississippi en sling blade. 1864, Brannon Hollingsworth, Prelude to Okolona, Four Fools Press, page 18: He let the Kaiser blade slip down into his palm. It felt good there, the well worn handle intimately comfortable in his calloused hand. His blood tricked down the haft and flowed across the slightly curved, upturned blade. 1937 (reprinted 1941), Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.), Occasional Paper - Southern Forest Experiment Station, page 3: On the flat the planting was done in narrow lanes cut through the dense brush, weeds, and vines with "Kaiser" blades (large ditch-bank blades or brush hooks). On the other two sites the entire planting area was cleared with Kaiser blades after the trees were removed. en 2001 Jerry Lee Bustin To Kill a Viper Xlibris Corporation 9781469120850 258 ... a shirt tail in a wind; and the guards ape-like body toppled backward and lay anesthetized and unconscious on the floor. The Choctaw raised his unchained right heel and hacked it down across the guards chest, striking like a Kaiser blade, ... en 2013 Ron Rash Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories Harper Collins 9780062202734 What had been a trusty sluff job was now as onerous as swinging a Kaiser blade or shoveling out ditches. As soon as he'd hauled the buckets back to the cage truck it was time to go again. Alternative forms kaiser blade