Bowie Knife

a long, dagger-shaped knife, having but one edge. It was named for Colonel James Bowie, an American frontiersman, who was killed in the defense of the Alamo. The knife was popular at first in Kentucky and the southwest. The first bowie knives were made by blacksmiths, usually from flat plow files. The name is now applied to any sheathed hunting knife of the sort. See Alamo; Knife