Word Finder - dagger

definition

A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

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The text character †; the obelus.

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A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win

example

Curry's last-minute 3-point dagger silenced the criticism for his so-called failure to come up big in big moments.

definition

To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

Jenn whipped out a dagger, but he knocked it away.

The blade of the dagger snapped in two.

The top opened of its own volition, revealing an aged stone dagger with dulled edges and a chipped stone hilt.

She slammed her elbow into his face, grunting as his dagger sliced through her shoulder.

She pulled out a rusted dagger and the best pair of boots she had.

She hid the dagger in a pocket and watched.

He buried a dagger in the gullet of the remaining man and darted forward.

She grimaced and took them.  Gabriel peeled off his heavy jacket as she chewed and watched him.  His hands absently traveled over all the places on his body where weapons were hidden and he pulled free a dagger with a jagged edge.

He tucked the dagger into his belt and shoved Rhyn out of his way as he exited the closet.

The dagger jammed it open, and the guardsman reached up to snatch it.

With effort, she forced herself up and threw a dagger in the direction of the Other.

She looked at the stone dagger and then at the fountain uneasily.

She rushed forward, screaming when Talon's dagger fell twice, thrice, five times.

Sheathing his dagger, he issued a sharp order to the girl.

If you must take your life, place your dagger as such and fall upon it.

I could see, absolutely see, the dagger and Lady Macbeth's little white hand--the dreadful stain was as real to me as to the grief-stricken queen.

Gabriel stopped and looked at him, taking in the dagger at his belt.

She held it with two hands and retreated to the fountain, unable to shake the instinct that said the dagger on the fountain was the same.

He tucked another dagger into her pocket.

The flash of metal drew her attention, and she raised her eyes as he trailed the dagger down his forearm.

Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.

All this cloak and dagger thinking wasn't accomplishing anything.

She gripped the blade of the dagger the man on top of her tried to shove through her throat.

She eluded one man and slashed at another with a dagger before sprinting toward the field.

He withdrew a dagger he.d purposely buried there, never intending to follow in the footsteps of Andre.s enforcer role.

Suddenly, Hannah stopped.  Kris barreled towards her.  He glimpsed movement before he burst into the small clearing.  It wasn't until he leapt over the final hurdle – a massive fallen tree – did he see what stopped her.  One moment she stood with her back to him.  The next, she was on the ground, Rhyn's dagger dripping with blood.

The attendants then withdrew, and while Henry was reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak.

The principal weapon of the Malays is the kris, a short dagger with a small wooden or ivory handle, of which there are many varieties.

In spite of the courage and presence of mind of Cairoli, who received the dagger thrust intended for the king, public and parliamentary indignation found expression in a vote which compelled the ministry to resign.

Yussuf, in desperation, drew his dagger and rushed upon the sultan.

Alp Arslan, the most skilful archer of his day, motioned to his guards not to interfere and drew his bow, but his foot slipped, the arrow glanced aside and he received the assassin's dagger in his breast.

The typical fighting costume of the Malay is a sleeveless jacket with texts from the Koran written upon it, short tight drawers reaching to the middle of the thigh, and the sarong is then bound tightly around the waist, leaving the hilt of the dagger worn in the girdle exposed to view.

Leaving his mule to the abbey, and giving away his worldly clothes to a beggar, he kept his watch in the church during the night of the 24th-25th of March, and placed on the Lady altar his sword and dagger.

The kodzuka, or handle of a little knife implanted into the sheath of the short sword or dagger, was, also of metal and engraved with like care.

Their distinguishing habiliments are long hair wound round a small dagger and bearing a comb inserted in it, a steel bracelet and short drawers.

It will be best then to give at once a list of these extant works, following the traditional order in which they have long been arranged, and marking with a dagger (j) those which are now usually considered not to be genuine, though not always with sufficient reason.

The industries of Pistoia include iron and steel works, especially manufactures of glass, silk, macaroni, woollens, olive oil, ropes, paper, vehicles and fire-arms. The word "pistol" is derived (apparently through pistolese, a dagger - dagger and pistol being both small arms) from Pistoia, where that weapon was largely manufactured in the middle ages.

To his thinking, poison and the dagger were less to be feared by the pope than the lust of power.

Although the evidence is not decisive, it seems probable that lions did exist in Greece at the time of Herodotus; and it is quite possible that the representation of a lion-chase incised on a Mycenean dagger may have been taken from life.

From the finds in Bavarian graves it appears that the chief weapons were the dagger and the long pointed Paistab (palstave), while a short dagger fixed like an axe on a long shaft is characteristic of the North.

The facade dates from 1278, and the interior of the edifice dates in the main from 1543 In the crypt is the tomb of Andrea Doria by Montorsoli, and above the main altar hangs the dagger presented to the doge by Pope Paul III.

The dagger grew longer and stouter, but the sword made its appearance late, probably first in the hands of the Sherdana (Sardinian?), mercenaries of the time of Rameses II.

A very finely made copper dagger (60) with deep midrib is dated to between 55 and 60 S.D.

The rapier (63) or lengthened dagger is rarely found, and is prisbably of prehistoric Greek origin.

Among them were four beys, one of whom, driven to madness by Mehemet Alls mockery, asked for a drink of water; his hands were untied that he might take the bottle, but he snatched a dagger from one of the soldiers, rushed at the pasha, and fell covered with wounds.

It was reported that his body had been found in a silver-mine pierced with, a dagger.

While negotiations were still pending, he had been set upon one evening by a fanatical ruffian, who thought to expedite matters with the dagger.

In it are carried, by literati and merchants, the pen-case and a roll of paper; its voluminous folds are used as pockets; by the bazaar people and villagers, porters and merchants servants, a small sheath knife is struck in it; while by farrashes, the carpet-spreader class, a large khanjar, or curved dagger, with a heavy ivory handle, is carried.

In a charge the infantry also might employ lance and dagger; but the essential point was that the archers should be mobile and their use of the bow unhampered.

In her six hands are torches, sometimes a snake, a key (as wardress of the lower world), a whip or a dagger; her favourite animal was the dog, which was sacrificed to her - an indication of her nonHellenic origin, since this animal very rarely fills this part in genuine Greek ritual.