meat-cutting

Updated: May 18, 2025

This advantage is undoubtedly due to the concoidal edge of the flaked glass operating upon the same principle that fluted-edged bread and bandage knives cut better than ordinary knives. In the same way we discovered that steel broad-heads sharpened by filing have a better meat-cutting edge than when ground on a stone.

Saxton Pope - Hunting with the Bow and Arrow

When hunting, one does well to carry in his pocket a small flat file with which to sharpen his broad-heads before shooting them. They should have a serrated, meat-cutting edge. Even carrying arrows in a quiver tends to dull them, because they chafe each other while in motion.

Saxton Pope - Hunting with the Bow and Arrow