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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
When you come to think of it, since it enjoyed such popularity as a civilian weapon, the people of that time would have had to have had an obsession with inflicting damage on one another's noble parts for it to have been named for the mode of use.
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I am not saying that the bollock knife was used exclusively to attack the groin....more of a 'nick name' ...that stuck.
As to names ...the humble 'pen knife' was originally used to re-point a writing quill......that function is no longer necessary.....but the name 'stuck' and is still in common useage.