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

Knife :: Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.

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

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

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

Creese :: Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade..

Dirk :: Dirk (n.) A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.

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

Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.

Scabbard :: Scabbard (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath..

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..

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..

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

Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) The haft of a dagger.

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

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

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..

Smeared :: Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita)..

Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].

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