英语词汇bowie knife的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bowie knife; Arkansas toothpick. One writer defines the bowie (pronounced “boo-ie”) knife as “the principal instrument of nonsurgical phlebotomy in the American Southwest.” Sad to say, this lethal instrument was not invented by the legendary Colonel James Bowie (1796–1836), friend of Davy Crockett and hero at the Alamo. According to testimony by a daughter of Rezin Pleasant Bowie, the colonel’s older brother, it was her father who invented the knife in about 1827, though Jim Bowie did make it famous in a duel that year at Natchez, Mississippi, in which six men were killed and 15 wounded. The common long-bladed hunting knife was originally made at Rezin Bowie’s direction by a Louisiana blacksmith, who ground a large file to razor sharpness and attached a guard between the blade and handle to protect the user’s hand. After he killed one man with it in the Natchez duel, Colonel Bowie is said to have sent his knife to a Philadelphia blacksmith, who marketed copies of it under his name. Its double-edged blade was 10 to 15 inches long, and curved to a point. Once called an Arkansas toothpick, it was even carried by some congressmen.

词汇	bowie knife
词源	bowie knife; Arkansas toothpick. One writer defines the bowie (pronounced “boo-ie”) knife as “the principal instrument of nonsurgical phlebotomy in the American Southwest.” Sad to say, this lethal instrument was not invented by the legendary Colonel James Bowie (1796–1836), friend of Davy Crockett and hero at the Alamo. According to testimony by a daughter of Rezin Pleasant Bowie, the colonel’s older brother, it was her father who invented the knife in about 1827, though Jim Bowie did make it famous in a duel that year at Natchez, Mississippi, in which six men were killed and 15 wounded. The common long-bladed hunting knife was originally made at Rezin Bowie’s direction by a Louisiana blacksmith, who ground a large file to razor sharpness and attached a guard between the blade and handle to protect the user’s hand. After he killed one man with it in the Natchez duel, Colonel Bowie is said to have sent his knife to a Philadelphia blacksmith, who marketed copies of it under his name. Its double-edged blade was 10 to 15 inches long, and curved to a point. Once called an Arkansas toothpick, it was even carried by some congressmen.
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