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Kris :: Kris (n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese.

Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made..

Chape :: Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

Steel :: Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc..

Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.

Haft :: Haft (n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt..

Couteau :: Couteau (n.) A knife; a dagger.

Dagger :: Dagger (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

Stiletto :: Stiletto (n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade..

Main-gauche :: Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war..

Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A dagger.

Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..

Boydekin :: Boydekin (n.) A dagger; a bodkin.

Hilt :: Hilt (n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like..

Stab :: Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person..

Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace..

Anlace :: Anlace (n.) A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.

Poniard :: Poniard (n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade..

Diesis :: Diesis (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.

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