Meanings
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noun
A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
The dagger, under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.
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2
noun
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.
His last-minute 3-point dagger silenced the criticism for his so-called failure to come up big in big moments.
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3
noun
A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
DAGGER. A piece of timber that faces on to the poppets of the bilgeways, and crosses them diagonally , to keep them together.
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4
noun
a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
Thesaurus
Etymology
From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”). In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective d...