dagger
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dagger/ˈdaɡə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon.
- 2 Printing another term for obelus.
– phrases
be at daggers drawn Brit. (of two people) be bitterly hostile towards each other.
look daggers at glare angrily or venomously at.
be at daggers drawn Brit. (of two people) be bitterly hostile towards each other.
look daggers at glare angrily or venomously at.
– origin ME: perh. from obs. dag ‘pierce’, influenced by OFr. dague ‘long dagger’.
'dagger' also found in these Oxford entries:
bayonet
- bistoury
- bodkin
- case knife
- cloak-and-dagger
- dirk
- double dagger
- double obelus
- hilt
- kris
- misericord
- pommel
- poniard
- scabbard
- sheath knife
- shuriken
- skean
- skean-dhu
- stiletto
