Definition of dagger

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

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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.
Obelisk :: Obelisk (n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2..
Baselard :: Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century..
Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
Dagger :: Dagger (v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
Diesis :: Diesis (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A dagger.
Panade :: Panade (n.) A dagger.
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..
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..
Dirk :: Dirk (n.) A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.
Poniard :: Poniard (n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade..
Couteau :: Couteau (n.) A knife; a dagger.
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..
Haft :: Haft (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger..
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.
Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].
Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..
Boydekin :: Boydekin (n.) A dagger; a bodkin.
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