dagger

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.