be am knife (bemnif)

A double-edged knife with a straight handle at one end of the blade, and a cro -handle fixed in the plane of the blade at the other. It is used in shaving off the thick, fleshy parts of a hide and evening its thickne . beamle (bēm'les), a. [ The beamle eye No more with ardour bright. Thomson, Summer, 1. 1045. beamlett (bēm'let), n. [ beam + -let .] A little beam, as of light.