"Mark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:59:03 -0700 (PDT), fred
wrote:

Thats what we called the small hand held device with a blade used to
sharpen a pencil.

Isn't that a knife?

Not when it's the small rectangular thing you stick the end
of the pencil into, or the other bigger thing you stick the
end of the pencil into and turn the handle on the side of.