-noun
1. a knife with the blade pivoted to fold into a recess in
the handle
2. a former name for a type of dive in which the diver bends
at the waist in mid-air, with the legs straight and the hands touching the
feet, finally straightening out and entering the water headfirst: forward pike
dive
-verb (intr.)
3. (of an articulated lorry) to go out of control in such a
way that the trailer swings round at an angle to the cab
4. to make a jackknife dive
Cutting through summer
Honey with a jackknife
Dreams staining its blade
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