Daggers
| example image | description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A daggar is often triangular and double edged but sometimes edgeless and tapers to a sharp point. Prime usage is to pierce, but some can also cut. When a knife's purpose and design is to be used as a weapon rather than for utility it is usually called a dagger. |
| Daggers/stabbing, parrying | Martial use | Region of association | Era of association |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parrying dagger/Specialized | War/offhand | Europe | Late Medieval |
| Kard | War | Levant | 18th cent and earlier |
| Misericorde/Mercy killer | term/Dispatching | Europe | Medieval |
| Amphismela | Term | ? | era? |
| Kaiken | General term | Japan | era? |
| Bollock dagger | Style | British | 13th-18th cent |
| Stiletto/style type | War | ? | era? |
| Jambiya | General term | Arabia | Traditional |
| Khanjar/hook shape | ? | Oman/Arabia | Traditional |
| Khanjali | ? | Country of Georgia | era? |
| Poignard | ? | ? | Medieval/Renaissance |
| Rencong | Ceremony | Aceh/Indonesia | era? |
| Bhuj | ? | Sindh/India | era? |
| Pugio | Backup | Roman | Antiquity |
| Parazonium | Historic | Roman | Antiquity |
| Obe | ? | Africa | era? |
| Yoroi toshi | ? | Japan | era? |
| Ear dagger | Rare style | Europe | Renaissance |
| Facon | Combat | South America | era? |
| Hunting dagger | Dispatching game | Germany | 18th cent |
| Sgian dubh | Ceremony | Scotland | Traditional |
| Thracian dagger | Relic | Thrace | era? |
| Trench Knife | Improvised/War | Europe | World War I |
| V-42 Stiletto | War | ? | World War II |
| Gerber Mark II | style/war | U.S. issue | World War II onward |
| F-S stilleto | War | England | Modern |
| U.S. Marine Stilleto | Combat | Issued | World War II |
| Spike/edgeless | |||
| Phurba | Ceremony | Tibet | Traditional |
| Rondel | Combat | Europe | Late Medieval |
| Shank/Shiv | Improvised | Prisons | Modern |
| Ice pick | Implement | ? | era? |
| Quadrant/4 prong | Arena battle | Rome | Classical |
| Sai | Parry/Martial art | Japan | era? |
| Oak Stake | Historic | Europe | Myth |
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Famous quotes containing the word daggers:
“It is a very true and expressive phrase, “He looked daggers at me,” for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)