Knife Grinder
A knife grinder — sharpening blades not his own — often touches liberties taken with what's yours, and drudgery without reward. The dream may ask where someone is using your possessions too freely, what wearing, thankless work is grinding at you, and whether a relationship feels more like toil than partnership.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for knife grinder, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties will be taken with your possessions. For a woman, this omens unhappy unions and much drudgery.