dagger

Noun

dagger (plural daggers)

1. (Weapon) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short blade.
   • 1600: I bruis"d my shin th" other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence... — William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene I, line 282.
   • 1786: The dagger, under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34.
2. A text character (†) that is used for footnotes and also signifies death.
3. Anything that causes pain like a dagger.
   • 1596: Tubal: Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night fourscore ducats. Shylock: You stick"st a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting, fourscore ducats! — William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene II, line 108.

Synonyms:

• barb (3)
• dirk (1)
• knife (1)
• obelisk (2), obelus (2)

6 letters in word "dagger": A D E G G R.

Anagrams of dagger:

• ragged

Words found within dagger:

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• Definitions:
• a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
• A dagger (from Vulgar Latin: 'daca' - a Dacian knife) is a typically double-edged blade used for stabbing or thrusting. They often fulfil the role of a secondary defence weapon in close combat. In most cases, a tang extends into the handle along the centreline of the blade.
• A dagger (†, †, U+2020) is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is also called an obelos, from a Greek word meaning "roasting spit" or "needle"; or obelisk, an alteration of the above (see obelisk). ...
• A grind down the center of a blade equally dividing it into halves. On the SpyderFly only the bottom edge is sharpened and the top of the dagger grind is left unsharpened creating a false edge.
• (10) -- a short stout edged and pointed weapon used for thrusting and stabbing (Oxford Dict.)
• a piece of timber that crosses all the poppets of the bulgeways to keep them together; the plank that secure the heads of the poppets, is called the dagger-plank.
• A type of short bladed weapon used for stabbing.
• a knife, usually in the form of a sword. Daggers came a variety of forms, with both single and double edged varieties. Like swords, were usually fitted with a pommel and guard, and throughout the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, also developed progressively more complex hilts.
• Used as a bayonet in a musket after the weapon had been fired.
• A dagger is a LARP-safe sharp weapon of 18" or less in length. The limit of natural damage with a dagger is SINGLE except in the case of the Backstab skill. The weapon length limits in TT are slightly flexible; 5% each way is a good rule of thumb. See 'cosh'.
• A short, knifelike weapon for stabbing, with a sharpedged pointed blade.

• dagged ←
• daggas ←
• dagga ←
• dagger
• → daggerboard
• → daggerboards
• → daggered