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pliable

On-Yomi: ジン

Koohii stories:

1) [mcfate] 31-10-2007(34): A leather blade would make for a poor sword, because it's too pliable.

2) [blannk] 3-12-2009(12): A leather blade is liable to be too pliable to be viable in a fight.

3) [gavmck] 10-3-2010(3): Barbers use a pliable leather strop to sharpen their razor blades.

4) [Meconium] 8-3-2010(2): When cutting the hide off an animal, you need a pliable blade, because the toughness of the leather will cause most blades to snap. (Note: something being pliable is a good thing! It means it will bend without breaking!).

5) [perrin4869] 9-10-2011(1): Imagine a prank where you are given a knife with a pliable blade, only it looks perfectly fine. The problem is that as you find out about the prank just as you are about to try it out on a bull to get its leather, by which time you are in real trouble.

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