He issued the heavy cane knives to each and left Spithead to watch over the blacks.
We used the last of Mama's supply when one of the field hands had nearly severed the calf of his leg with a cane knife.
A cane knife is a large hand-wielded cutting tool similar to a machete.
Freeing themselves, they quickly went up on deck and, armed with machete-like cane knives, successfully gained control of the ship.
Some of the really big ones were used as cane knives and as weapons, too.
For short-range weapons, the combat knife was tested against the cane knife in eliminating two targets.
Pol Pot makes his move and rounds the corner, swinging his cane knife into the dictator's neck.
When the occupants fled from the house, shots were fired at them and they were attacked with cane knives.
She had defended herself by chopping him half dozen times with a cane knife.
Thirty, forty of us going out in the field with cane knives, hoes, plows - name it.