Engineering:List of daggers
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The following is a list of notable daggers, either historical or modern. A dagger is a knife with a sharp point designed for fighting.
Ancient daggers
- Acinaces
- Bronze Age dagger
- Parazonium
- Pugio
- Sica
European tradition
- High Middle Ages
- Knightly dagger
- Late Middle Ages
- Anelace (14th century long English dagger, worn as an accoutrement)
- Baselard (14th century long cutting dagger)
- Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape)
- Poignard
- Renaissance
- Cinquedea (broad short sword)
- Misericorde (weapon)
- Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th)
- Modern
- Dirk (Scotland)
- Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany)
- Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
- Sgian-dubh (Scotland)
- Trench knife (WWI)
- Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (British Armed Forces, WW2)
- Puñal (Spain, Latin America)
- Push dagger
Asian tradition
African tradition
American tradition
Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present.
- BC-41 (WWII)
- Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers)
- Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US)
- Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
- Corvo (19th-century Chile)
- Gerber Mark II (1967)
- Push dagger
- United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII)
- V-42 stiletto (WWII)
- "Yank" Levy fighting knife
See also
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