dagger
dag·ger (dag′ər)
noun
- a weapon with a short, pointed blade, used for stabbing
- a symbol (†) used as a reference mark or to indicate that a person listed has died
Etymology: ME daggere < OFr dague < OProv daga
transitive verb
- to stab with a dagger
- to mark with a dagger
look daggers at
to look at with anger or hatred
Converse of object
- wield: His treachery ( a dagger wielded by the hand of a friend ) is a gross betrayal.
- jewel: Become crushed into shards or melt as I speak rusty hooks, jeweled daggers, dark candy.
- draw: From a boot sheath, he drew a slender dagger.
- throw: Rellan threw a dagger at the same figure hitting him in the leg.
- fly: And in his pocket we found one of those warning messages dated the day before and stamped with the flying dagger.
- carry: Roberto Raposo A Puerto Rican sorceror, Raposo carried the Dagger of Bithynia on its flight from Miami to London.
Preposition: in
- hand: Historically, rapiers were often used in combination with a buckler or a dagger in the off hand.
Adjective modifier
- ceremonial: It is a blunt, ceremonial dagger worn with Highland Dress.
- ornamental: It is also used to make ornamental dagger handles in the Yemen.
- bloody: The fled from the room, and ran through the market place, the bloody dagger still gripped tightly in his hand.
- historical: The third novel in the trilogy won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger.
- short: The rest of her dress was green and she had a short dagger at her waist.
- small: In his left hand, he appears to be holding a small dagger.
Modifies a noun
- stuff: But we'll leave the cloak and dagger stuff for others to contemplate.
- board: Improved stance on all points of sailing; basic harness technique; using the dagger board.
- thrust: In his fear her mistook it for a mean trick, a cloak and dagger thrust behind a mask of innocence.
Noun used with modifier
- bronze: These Bronze Age people made flint and bronze daggers - often placed in their graves.
- silver: They wished it had been possible to award a Silver Dagger too!
- ice: Steve had read a magazine and been shopping; he was experimenting with an ax and ice dagger combination!
- copper: Even copper daggers - where they occur in Beaker graves - were typically concealed.
La famille des Bourbons est un poignard que l'e¤ tranger en1814 a laisse¤ dans le c½ur de la France: changez le manche comme il vous plaira, dorez la lame si vous voulez, le poignard reste poignard. The Bourbon family is a dagger whichthe foreigner left in the heart of France in1814: changethe haft if you please, gild the blade if you will, the dagger remains a dagger.
O thou, the friend of man assigned, With balmy hands his wounds to bind, And charm his frantic woe: When first Distress with dagger keen Broke forth to waste his destined scene, His wild unsated foe!
Browse dictionary entries near dagger
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