>>1005663Yes they can.
I'm not talking about the obvious like Butcher knives.
I'm talking about what is now known as the French Cook's knife.
This is an acient design that was used in and around the Mediterranean.
This design heavily influenced the modern Cook's knife, but also influenced Spanish hunting knives, which later in the new world evolved into the Argentine Gaucho Knife, and the first Bowie knife, that was commissioned by Rezin Bowie and used by his brother Jim in the Sandbar fight.