Fighting knife the Kukri, a broad-bladed, curved general-purpose cutting tool and weapon with Indian origins. In other countries the machete or Filipino Bolo were often used as fighting knives by indigenous military or paramilitary forces. Colonial powers that encountered these general-purpose weapons used as fighting knives during a military campaign occasionally adopted them in turn for use by their own military forces, as exemplified by the U.S. Army's Model 1910/17 "Bolo" brush-clearing knife, which would be later pressed into service as a fighting knife in both World Wars. In World War I, military use of the fighting knife saw the introduction of
Cheese knife the form of rosettes that resemble chanterelle mushrooms (also known as "" in French, hence the name of the device). This cheese was traditionally scraped with a knife. The "girolle" was invented in 1982 by Nicolas Crevoisier of the Swiss Jura and is produced by the Métafil-laGirolle company. The cheese plane is a stationary variant of a carpenter's plane. It is used for cutting extra-hard Berner Alpkäse that has been aged for at least two years, also known as Hobelkäse (‘plane cheese’). Cheese knife A cheese knife is a type of kitchen knife specialized for the cutting of cheese. Different