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means A large, single-edged fixed-blade knife with a clipped point, designed as much for fighting as for everyday frontier use.

from Named for Jim Bowie, the American frontiersman who became a legend after a brutal 1827 brawl known as the Sandbar Fight, where a big knife helped him survive multiple stab and gunshot wounds. The exact design of his original blade is debated — several knifemakers, including Arkansas smith James Black, are credited with shaping what became 'the' Bowie knife — but the pattern that spread across 19th-century America, with its distinctive clipped or curved point, took his name and ran with it, long after Bowie himself died at the Alamo.