Drop point is a knife

Knife

A knife is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools...

 blade

Blade

A blade is that portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with a cutting edge and/or a pointed tip that is designed to cut and/or puncture, stab, slash, chop, slice, thrust, or scrape animate or inanimate surfaces or materials...

 that slopes on the spine of the blade from the handle

Handle (grip)

A handle is a part of, or attachment to, an object that can be moved or used by hand. The design of each type of handle involves substantial ergonomic issues, even where these are dealt with intuitively or by following tradition...

 of the knife to the tip of the blade. This allows the spine of the blade (where the blade is thicker, and thus stronger) to continue forward to the tip of the blade.

The curve

Curve

In mathematics, a curve is, generally speaking, an object similar to a line but which is not required to be straight...

 on the top of a drop-point blade is always convex, which is what distinguishes it from a clip point

Clip point

thumb|250px|A [[Bowie knife]] clearly showing the clip pointThe clip point is one of the three most common knife blade shapes used . Clip point blades have the appearance of having the forward third of the blade "clipped" off...

 blade. The drop point is a common design for hunting knives and was popularized in the mid 20th century by Knifemaker Bob Loveless

Bob Loveless

Robert Waldorf Loveless , aka Bob Loveless or RW Loveless, was an American knife maker who designed and popularized the hollowground drop point blade and the use of full tapered tangs and screw-type handle scale fasteners within the art of knifemaking...

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