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DAGGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
Synonyms:
dagger; sticker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dagger" is a kind of...):
knife (a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point)
Meronyms (parts of "dagger"):
haft; helve (the handle of a weapon or tool)
hilt (the handle of a sword or dagger)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dagger"):
dirk (a relatively long dagger with a straight blade)
kirpan (a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times)
crease; creese; kris (a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade)
bodkin; poniard (a dagger with a slender blade)
stiletto (a small dagger with a tapered blade)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
Synonyms:
dagger; obelisk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dagger" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)
Context examples:
Now this Gourval was very greedy for money, so he thrust forth his hand for the fourteen deniers, but Simon had his dagger ready and he pinned his hand to the door.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thunderbolts and daggers!—what a reproof would she have given me!—her taste, her opinions—I believe they are better known to me than my own,—and I am sure they are dearer.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
'Is that a dagger that I see before me? muttered Jo, rolling her eyes and clutching at the air, as she had seen a famous tragedian do.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The knife with which the crime had been committed was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from a trophy of Oriental arms which adorned one of the walls.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"How well you read me, you witch!" interposed Mr. Rochester: "but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At this the negro took heart of grace, and picking up his dagger again he came stealing with prowling step and murderous eye, while the two swayed backwards and forwards, staggering this way and that.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Sir Nigel sprang to his feet with his bloody dagger in his left hand and gazed down upon his adversary, but that fatal and sudden stab in the vital spot, which the Spaniard had exposed by raising his arm, had proved instantly mortal.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My master has heard that there is jousting here, and prospect of honorable advancement, so he has come to ask that some English cavalier will vouchsafe for the love of his lady to run a course with sharpened lances with him, or to meet him with sword, mace, battle-axe, or dagger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
