Definitions
a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
Word origin
From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“His last-minute 3-point dagger silenced the criticism for his so-called failure to come up big in big moments.”
“DAGGER. A piece of timber that faces on to the poppets of the bilgeways, and crosses them diagonally , to keep them together”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Short stabbing blade”6 letters
02“Short pointed knife”6 letters
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